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Business is business. Food is the first human necessities, is directly related to the survival and health. For our country, food is the most important strategic materials. Maintain national survival and security of today's three pillars of food, military, energy, the primacy of food and its importance in the military, energy del monte produce above. Therefore, del monte produce the impact of the food crisis beyond the food problem itself. Food crisis will lead to social unrest and political crisis. Food shortages, soaring food prices so the majority of sharp declines in living standards, poverty levels del monte produce but also to suffering from hunger. This inevitably exacerbate social conflicts, the outbreak del monte produce of the crisis eventualities. Food crisis has led to unrest in many countries appear del monte produce in the Caribbean, del monte produce Africa and Asia riots in many countries and bloody conflict, Prime Minister of Haiti thus also resign.
World food prices at an alarming rate. In rice prices, for example, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Egypt and other rice-exporting countries in recent months has announced restrictions on rice exports to ensure domestic supply, leading to March 2008 since the international rice prices continued to rise significantly, FOB price from early March $ 467 per ton rose to $ 608 per tonne at the end, especially the March 27 Thai rice export price jumped 30 percent last month, marking a new high in 20 years. Compared with the same period del monte produce in 2007, in March the international market of wheat, corn, soybeans and rice prices rose by 137.5%, del monte produce 36.4%, 79.2% and 66.6%. del monte produce
The face of global food shortages, a food battle, from the beginning of 2007 the world food prices beginning, quietly broke out.
Such a large scale food prices impact on the world is self-evident. The United Nations World Food Programme Executive Director Sheeran said that food prices like a "silent tsunami", is sweeping the world, forcing more than 100 million population "return" to the plight of starving. More than 2000 ten thousand on the global threat posed by poor children in particular is huge. WFP spokesman in London Barrow pointed out that less developed del monte produce regions, 80 per cent of household income to purchase food, they are this "silent tsunami" of the main victims. Organization for Economic del monte produce Cooperation and Development (OECD) Secretary General Angel Gurria said: "This is an additional impact on the world economy, but still the hardest hit poor countries, they must bear the high prices."
The rise in food prices on the populous Asian countries, is a not a small crisis. Asian Development Bank President Haruhiko Kuroda in Madrid at the Asian Development Bank meeting that the crisis of soaring food prices, could obliterate the Asia-Pacific region in the past few decades poverty reduction efforts del monte produce and results. To this end, he called on all countries to take immediate response, and Asia will likely have more than one billion people suffering from malnutrition situation. In addition, rising global food prices in some Asian countries will also have an adverse impact on economic growth. ADB estimates that if the food (especially grains) prices continued to rise, the Asian region 10 major economies, including China, India and South Korea, the 2008 gross domestic product (GDP) growth will be reduced by 3.4 percentage points; first two kinds of situation is that inflation is exacerbated by the impact of soaring food prices, del monte produce economic growth will be reduced by an average 4.2 percentage points.
Out of consideration to ensure national food security, many countries have import and export links from the start of the article. On the one hand, import and export tax adjustment has become a universal tool. Such as the Russian wheat exports in 2007, 10% of export tariffs levied on the basis of 2008 will once again raise the rate to 40%. In order to find as much food and reserves together, the EU decided in June 2008 before the temporary removal of food import duties. Similarly, Saudi Arabia has announced that food import duty reduced from 25% to zero. On the other hand, has become common practice to limit food exports. The Vietnamese del monte produce government del monte produce announced in 2008 rice exports will be reduced 1/4, decreased from 4.5 million tons to 350 million tons. Government of India banned except for the price level other than the most expensive of all grades of rice exports; Coincidentally, the Egyptian government announced that from April 1, introduced a six-month ban on rice exports. Cambodia announced the addition to government departments, the private sector export ban on all rice.
Some traditional food is becoming a net exporter of food-importing countries. One of the world's largest granary pampas, people have been convinced that fertile land and plenty of food - bread, corn, soybeans, beef, Argentines del monte produce are God-given gift, since ancient times, they rarely diet issues del monte produce as too unhappy. This belief is being realistic impact. January 18, 2008, the Argentine government announced that in order to ensure domestic del monte produce supply, consider again raise soybeans, corn, wheat export tariffs. November 2007, Argentina has been a substantial increase in grain export tariffs and quantitative restrictions on exports of beef to implement. But two months later found that the domestic supply is still tight, policies must be adjusted again. del monte produce
After the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, international oil prices continued to rise, people suddenly found that really scary thing is to bring people's fears of food shortages, food crisis is spreading occurs locally and showed del monte produce a trend ......
UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) warned cereal prices have resulted in poor countries is difficult to increase the burden of the first half of 2008, there are 36 countries worldwide are facing food crisis, mainly in Africa, South and Central America. The agency said for example, since 2007 since the beginning of the Afghan domestic wheat prices del monte produce have risen 67%, buy bread and food expenditure has accounted for an ordinary Afghan families del monte produce daily expenses 45%. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) staff in Sudan hereby Jonah said funding del monte produce for food aid increased significantly, the agency may be forced to consider reducing the number or quantity of aid assistance. In some developing countries, due to higher del monte produce food prices, del monte produce many families reduced to three meals a day for a meal, there are some families only daily intake of a meal staple. del monte produce
Have predicted that the current round of food crisis will continue until 2010. According to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, recently released a report, Asia-Pacific countries facing food prices rose sharply within the next few years will be the biggest challenge. Food prices is one of the most direct consequence of forcing ordinary people to tighten their belts. India, many families are now beginning to three meals a day to two meals. UN humanitarian food aid program faces a shortfall of $ 500 million, had to consider reducing the scale of assistance, which means that more people will suffer hunger. Rising food prices caused by the many countries and regions, inflation del monte produce and social instability, but also to the world economy and politics brought new uncertainties.
In food production due to climate drought reduced the same time, demand for the emergence of new growth point. As the rapid growth of the national income in developing countries, more and more poor people not only to solve the food problem, but also continued to improve diet. This exacerbated the original, there's demand, while other food prices pushed up. As the global impact of urbanization, coupled with wealthy people always del monte produce eating more protein and calories, "gourmet globalization" phenomenon is being played, people are no longer satisfied with rice and soy-based food, love the pizza, hamburgers and pork chops. In the past 25 years, the World meat consumption doubled and continues to grow. Meat production also requires a lot of feed. Fed 3 kg grain farmers need to get 1 kg of pork, for beef, the ratio is as high as 7:1. Global biscuits, bread, noodles del monte produce demand rose also makes food availability tensions.
Because wealthy, developed countries and regions unable to help themselves, and thus poverty, underdevelopment countries and regions will be difficult to obtain assistance and relief.
July 2008, the U.S. dollar against major world currencies exchange index fell 17.13 percent year on year, while corn prices rose 55.7 percent, rice prices soared by 120.9%. In the international market, mostly denominated in U.S. dollars grain price in mind, therefore, the dollar's decline will lead to rising food prices worldwide. U.S. dollar seems to have realized the negative impact on international prices, so U.S. officials repeatedly on various occasions stressed del monte produce the same point of view. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said: "My view has not changed for the dollar, a strong dollar is still in line with our national interests, but I have to admit that our economy is going through a difficult period."
CASS Institute of World Politics and Economy Fan, assistant told reporters: "For del monte produce example, if the Fed think it's inflationary pressure is large, then it will raise interest rates; if the Fed to raise interest rates, and the dollar rebounded, So no matter what the product del monte produce will make the prices are likely to decrease. decline of it, will bring the crisis. "Statistics show that every dollar fell by one percentage point would make the corresponding increase in food prices during the one percentage point, while the dollars in our wallets are also shock when light weight. It can be said, in a sense, the dollar also like Uncle Sam's big mouth, swallowing being unceremoniously world food.
From the national monetary policy and international financial markets, first of all, the dollar continued to weaken exacerbated food prices. The Fed's monetary policy response del monte produce to the subprime crisis objectively blowing big bubbles in financial markets, grain products as investors preferred to avoid the risk of inflation. Secondly, in the context of excess liquidity, asset investment del monte produce and speculation del monte produce on food investment formed a "crowding out" food investment is "crowding out" is bound to affect supply level. Again, some economies loose monetary policy to stimulate the economy approach leads to expansion of the number of currency, credit and investment soared, land converted to urban land mass, grain acreage greatly reduced.
World Development Institute researcher Ding Yifan there is a different view: "the premier monetary reasons." He answered straight to the point, the "subprime crisis del monte produce makes a lot of money to lose this important flow of the real estate market and lead to release of U.S. economic growth del monte produce relief in order to prevent further deterioration and thus affect del monte produce global economic del monte produce growth, governments to inject a lot of money, however, because the real estate market outlook is still not optimistic, the stock market as represented by the capital market is also unrest continued, so a large capital injection 'desperate' only defected commodity markets as commodity markets 'key member', food prices are raised also inevitable. "
"Tension between supply and demand is an indisputable fact, but this tension does not support such a high price." Ding Yifan put forward their views, "In fact, many data have been described, the international grain market supply and demand tension and Unlike imagined as severe, however, motivated by profit, making this not serious tensions attracted a lot of hot money, driving up prices, thereby boosting 'tension effect', del monte produce resulting in the international grain market is very tight supply-demand relationship illusion turn, this false image and attract more capital inflows, further driving up the price and so forth, creating a vicious cycle of rising food prices also make the point by now. " del monte produce
There are 330 million people in Haiti have enough to eat. Agricultural population del monte produce accounts for 80% of the employed population. del monte produce Deficit of about 450,000 tons per year in Haiti, international aid 8 to 9 million tons. From basic self-sufficient, to rely on rice imports, of which there what causes it? Zhou said: "Because the farmers to grow food that is not worth the kind of rice worth, so they have to leave their land to the city to make a living, and when the rice trade has been sustained, to the example of Haiti now has 3/4 rice from the United States, when food prices after poor people in these countries can not afford del monte produce rice, so the Haitian social unrest will occur. "
May 2006 Haitian del monte produce President Rene Preval took office when he said: To build Haiti's agricultural system, and improve agricultural production in Haiti. But for now, he dashed. Zhou said: "When del monte produce the United States willing to go through subsidized low prices of grain, del monte produce to aid the poor in Asia, Africa small country, it is accepted and welcomed these countries like the U.S. aid, but such aid would give domestic food production bring a huge impact, because they can not sell the food in this case, it produced a U.S. food production del monte produce systems in developing countries an alternative production system when this substitution occurs after a few years, these smallholders have not reproduce food, because food production can not bring them benefits, they will switch to the United States del monte produce needed economic crops, such as bananas, spices, and coffee beans. "
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report Office Director Kevin? del monte produce Hawkins said: "In a free market rhetoric and emphasize the advantages of playing field behind the hard fact is that some of the world's poorest farmers are forced to enter and Industry National Treasury rather than northern farmers compete. "Academy of Social Sciences Institute of World Politics and Economy del monte produce Fan, assistant told reporters:" From the Uruguay Round, the Doha Round, del monte produce in recent years we have seen from all of the negotiations, one of the most sensitive topics that prices del monte produce of agricultural negotiations. then why the prices of agricultural negotiations to become the focus of conflicts developed and developing countries do? because developed countries on agricultural products are subsidized, and it is very large subsidies, the EU subsidies received by a cow than a year of poor people del monte produce in developing countries a much higher cost of living, but when it gets subsidies after its price can be lower than prices in developing countries supplying their dumping in the international market, so This would make a lot of food and agriculture in developing countries, under pressure from outside, in the import of cheap products under the pressure of bankruptcy. "
American Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy information shows that in the past 20 years, the U.S. government has been improving direct subsidies to agriculture. This subsidy, mainly for 20 kinds of commercially important agricultural products. WTO in developing countries once joked, "developed country agricultural subsidies each year to 41 million head of cattle del monte produce can fly first class seats around the world 1.5 times, while the new U.S. farm bill will undoubtedly increase the length of the journey." Foreign Trade University, Xia Youfu Open Economy Institute, said: "agricultural del monte produce products has not been normalized, that is, the entire agricultural market is distorted, this time the food crisis, including the oil crisis, reflecting what is the problem? ineffective is that the market economy The market economy is not simply true reflection of the concept of supply and demand, but the market economy has been distorted, a failure, it is not perfectly competitive period, and only by some countries, by some manipulation of monopoly capital