Part 2: BBC World Debate - Food - Who Pays the Price?

Food Who Pays the Price? raises important questions about who produces the food we eat and how. Urbanization, climate change, changing diets in emerging economies and the impact of supermarkets are putting new pressures on the land and changing the face of farming. Meanwhile small farmers around the world are leaving the land in increasing numbers.

Staged in Rome to mark IFADs 30th Anniversary.
Produced by TVE for BBC World in cooperation with IFAD.

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[TejasM14]

The srilankan hits the nail on the head. With looking at food, purely from an economic point, there is SO much wastage of resources.

[whiterican74]

Awesome stuff to listen too. That guy at the end really nipped it in the butt.. LOL he makes so much more sense than a corporate pig ever could.

[whiterican74]

Awesome stuff to listen too. And let the public see

[pondman27]

Consuming meat from factory farms is to ensure your life & vitality are shortened.

Producing meat should NEVER occur away from its natural foodstuffs.

The question is how much embodied energy is in the food versus that used in its production. Apply these basic but essential facts and industrial farming is a dead corpse staining the planet.

[pondman27]

3:49 "meet all our needs" this scaremongering & attempted justification for environmental vandalism is skewed. This fat cat knows nothing of the living symbiosis that has served peoples needs for tens of thousands of years.

Nature abhors monoculture which is why thier crops fail and the prices go up. Thier market driven system requires scarcity which is why this is like giving the fox the keys to the chicken house.

[pondman27]

Just take the briefest of looks at what has happened when these dog eat dog corporate entities move into an area. Everything is destroyed, the water, the soil & the health of the people that have to eat the muck.

20 years ago, the people of Haiti were self sufficient in all thier needs. Look at them now after the mauling of the US government & its corporate invasion. The variety & diversity of these people has been progressively destroyed by government sponsored take over.

[pondman27]

Large corporations ignore the words of the prophets and instead follow the ruthless dog eat dog world of false profits.

Food should never be regarded as fast moving consumer goods. 2:35 It would not be in the interests of large corporations for food prices to come down, yet it is perfectly possible for diverse integrated systems to easily exceed the poison soaked industrial commodities.

3:46 Bringing more land under the control of industrial practices will destroy more land

[pondman27]

Food prices under the manipulation of corporate & government invbasions of indigenous lands. These places suffering food poverty only do so because they are being denied land. They are denied this by the imposed poverty of the IMF.