Global Food Crisis: France wants extension of agriculture protections to Africa and Latin America; Recipe for empowering rich elites while farmers would lose access to international markets
Apr 28th, 2008 | By Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal | Category: News worldwide
Global Food Crisis: Africa and Latin America should adopt their own versions of agricultural protection along the lines of Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a response to rising demand for food, according to Michel Barnier, France’s farm minister. He wants to give greater control of agriculture to corrupt elites by arguing that farmers in poor countries should not produce cash crops for export.