At the recent US Social Forum, the Community Alliance for Global Justice, organized a workshop entitled “The Politics of Exploiting Need: AGRA, The Gates Foundation and the Food Crisis”. Mahmadou Goita from IRPAD in Senegal, Eric Holt Gimenez from Food First, and IDEX Partner, Rose Williams from Biowatch, participated in this panel.
Following up on this Pambazuka News have published an eye-opening paper on Food Sovereignty, written by Mahmadou Goita that we’d like to share with you:
“The different explanations given for Africa’s current food crisis seem to miss the real causes of the problem. Mamadou Goita does not believe that the crisis is of an economic nature. Rather, it is the endpoint of the dismantling of Africa’s agricultural sector and its linking to the international market and brutal liberalism. Based on an analysis of the political choices that have contributed to the current situation, notably the structural adjustment programmes of the 1980s, Goita proposes solutions and decisions that need to be taken to achieve food sovereignty in Africa.”
To read the full article visit Pambazuka News.
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