{"id":9466,"date":"2015-06-26T06:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T11:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9466"},"modified":"2015-06-26T06:12:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T11:12:29","slug":"food-security-a-hostage-to-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9466","title":{"rendered":"Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2015\/06\/26\/food-security-a-hostage-to-wall-street\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><strong>Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"subheadlinestyle\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mainauthorstyle\">In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated \u2018Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth\u2019. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization\u2019s website, the family farming theme was chosen to raise the profile of family farming and smallholder farmers. The aim was to focus world attention on the significant role of family farming in eradicating hunger and poverty, providing food security and nutrition, improving livelihoods, managing natural resources, protecting the environment, and achieving sustainable development, especially in rural areas.<\/div>\n<div class=\"main-text\">\n<p>Family farming should indeed be celebrated because it really does feed the world. This claim is supported by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grain.org\/article\/entries\/4929-hungry-for-land-small-farmers-feed-the-world-with-less-than-a-quarter-of-all-farmland\">2014 report<\/a>\u00a0by GRAIN, which revealed that small farms produce most of the world\u2019s food.<\/p>\n<p>Around 56% of\u00a0Russia\u00a0\u2018s agricultural output comes from family farms which occupy less than 9% of arable land. These farms produce\u00a090% of the country\u2019s potatoes, 83% of its vegetables, 55% of its of milk, 39% of its meat and 22% of its cereals (Russian Federation Federal State Statistics Services figures for 2011).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/m376s82\">In\u00a0Brazil<\/a>, 84% of farms are small and control 24% of the land, yet they produce: 87% of cassava, 69% of beans, 67% of goat milk, 59% of pork, 58% of cow milk, 50% of chickens, 46% of maize, 38% of coffee, 33.8% of rice and 30% of cattle.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Cuba,\u00a0with 27% of the land, small farmers produce: 98% of fruits, 95% of beans, 80% of maize, 75% of pork, 65% of vegetables, 55% of cow milk, 55% of cattle and 35% of rice (Braulio Machin et al, ANAP-Via Campesina, \u201cRevolucion agroecologica, resumen ejectivo\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0Ukraine, small farmers operate 16% of agricultural land, but provide 55% of agricultural output, including: 97% of potatoes, 97% of honey, 88% of vegetables, 83% of fruits and berries and 80% of milk (State Statistics Service of\u00a0Ukraine. \u201cMain agricultural characteristics of households in rural areas in 2011\u2033).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Security: a Hostage to Wall Street Imperialism and the Control of Agriculture In October of last year, World Food Day celebrated \u2018Family Farming: Feeding the world, caring for the earth\u2019. 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