Reflections

About Big Agribusiness

This global food system, essentially broken, which is exploitative, extractive, poorly regulated and largely in the hands of big agribusiness, is becoming unsustainable for people and the planet and is pushing millions to starvation, in East Africa and around the world.

Hanna Saarinen

About Benefiting from Pain

The increase in wealth of the billionaires from the food sector for two weeks would be enough to respond to the hunger crisis in East Africa. While in Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia one person dies every 48 seconds, entrepreneurs engaged in the production, industrialization, and marketing of food increased their wealth by 382,000 million dollars from March 2020 to March of this year.  

OXFAM

About Progressive Election Victories

In the analysis of the recent progressive electoral victories, it is often omitted that they arrive at the palace without parliamentary majorities, in deeply divided societies, where the right has strengthened to the point of being able to veto the changes. Without forgetting two additional facts: that global markets play against the slightest modification of the rules of the game and that progressive forces often have neither the will nor the appropriate proposals to modify the reality they inherit.

Raul Zibechi