Este libro es una compilación de ponencias y conclusiones presentadas durante el Seminario sobre Agricultura y Alimentación, desarrollado en Chaclacayo entre el 10 y el 13 de octubre de 1979, y que fuera organizado por el programa Académico de Ciencias Sociales de la PUCP y el Proyecto SINEA, la Fundación para el Desarrollo Nacional. El Seminario permitió un verdadero intercambio de puntos de vista y un debate intelectual y técnico de alto nivel entre los asistentes sobre la alimentación popular y el sistema agroalimentario del país, explicándose entre otros aspectos, los nocivos efectos de la dependencia de la industria alimentaria extranjera.
This article empirically demonstrates that the European and US globalisation and capitalism in agriculture, food and the agro-industry since the mid-20th century have been supported and powered by subsidies (which at present is 50 per cent of the value of agricultural production in Europe and the US) and technological advances in the cultivation of mainly grains (wheat, corn, rice and barley), oilseeds (especially soybeans), milk and cotton. This led to a major expansion in the periphery of the standard food and textile industries dependent on imports of commodities at artificially low prices and a pattern of food consumption with a growing imported and subsidised component for the urban and rural low-income masses. With the emergence of agro-fuels prompted by OECD countries has begun a process of unification of the global market for food with the fuel or energy market in general. Our proposal—keeping in mind the recent experience of the recession that could threaten to become a global depression like in 1929—is a design to replace the current one-agri-food and energy global systems, seeking the restoration of the validity of the real comparative advantages.
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