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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  21st of May 2008

Craig Isherwood, National Secretary
PO Box 376, COBURG, VIC, 3058
Phone: 03 9354 0544 Fax: 03 9354 0166
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

World responds to LaRouche call to double food production, dump free trade

Only five days after Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s May 3rd call demanding that the June 3-5 Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) conference focus on the necessity to urgently double world food production, Jacques Diouf, the Director-General of the FAO, himself stated that it is necessary to double world food production by applying technology and building infrastructure.

Since then a growing chorus of nations have committed to an urgent expansion of food production, including Argentina, Honduras, Colombia, Senegal, Malawi, the Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia.

European leaders such as the French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier, German Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer, and Finance Minister of Italy Giulio Tremonti, have all attacked the World Trade Organisation plan to eliminate the last protectionist remnants of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which would further cut food production.

On May 16th Brazil joined China, Russia and India at Yakaterinburg in Russia, to call for a “just global economic system” and urgent action to ensure world food security. The previous day Russia and China had welcomed India, as an observer, into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a clear indication that the three nations have determined to work together to oppose British-driven globalist policies which are leading to famine and war (Click here for more).

Following this, on May 19th, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin spoke at an agricultural conference in Russia’s south, calling for Russia to massively expand its food production and become a net exporter of food, using protective trade measures and subsidies.

At the May 18th World Economic Forum, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak firmly put the issue of “food security for the poor” on the table, demanding an end to “burning food” through biofuel production. He announced that he would bring this agenda to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in Rome in early June.

At the May 28-30th International Conference on African Development, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will announce his pledge to double aid and private investment to Africa by 2012. Much of the money will go to fund development, including plans to double rice production in Africa in the next decade.

At the request of 82 countries, the United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a Special Session in Geneva this Thursday to discuss the world food crisis as a violation of the most basic of human rights: the right to food. The request for the session states that the world can produce enough food to feed twice the entire global population!

Finally, in India today, the Indian Commerce Secretary announced that the WTO Doha text is “totally unacceptable,” because it would prevent India from protecting its small and marginal farmers, and its industries from cheap imports.

With only two weeks to go to the FAO conference, when will Australia decide to dump our foolish commitment to free trade and join the effort to help relieve the world food shortage?

To read Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Mobilisation to double world food production”, click here.

To send a message to Canberra, click here and join our Food Crisis mobilisation.
You will receive a Food Crisis Pack when you sign our statement,
“Australia must act now to address global food crisis.”


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