The pointlessness of talking hunger in Madrid
NewAge, January 30, 2009In the past two decades, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund have largely overseen what was described as ‘structural adjustments’ in developing and least developed economies, which involved the dismantling of tariff regimes that protected local industry and production, among them small-scale agriculture, writes Mahtab HaiderThe United Nations summit for food security ended on Tuesday in Madrid without much cause for hope for the world’s hungry. Leading up t

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The pointlessness of talking hunger in Madrid