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How to Manufacture a Global Food Crisis: The destruction of agriculture in developing countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Walden Bello
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How “free trade” is destroying Third World agriculture-and who's fighting back.

The global rise in food prices is not only a consequence of using food crops to produce biofuels, but of the “free trade” policies promoted by international financial institutions. Now peasant organisations are leading the opposition to a capitalist industrial agriculture.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , May 2008 , e24
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