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Hunger Map FAO (UN Food and Agriculture) Present: 862 million hungry people in the world. Future: For two years we have been observing an unstoppable rise in food prices (and between 20 and 80% more expensive than in the previous decade) is on the verge of causing a global crisis. More than 2,000 million people are seriously threatened by famine. 3,000 million are already under the poverty line and more than 1,200 million lack access to clean water. ETIOLOGY Why have risen so much food? The causes are known, "Dramatic increase in consumption in Asian countries, particularly India and China, with more than 2,500 million people. -Crisis caused by poor harvests fruit from over-exploitation and climate change. Grain-price increases as a result of increased demand for biofuels (caused in turn by the price of oil, over, no one guesses to explain why, of $ 120 per barrel). -Existence of speculation on the chain of distribution by a few multinational companies (market oligopolies) that raise up to ten times the starting price of the farmer. "Aid, grants and subsidies to agriculture, as well as tariffs and other protectionist barriers in rich countries (with the CAP to the head, much to say today the Minister) that close off the production country development. CAN DO SOMETHING? With that idea met in Rome from today until Thursday, various international agencies convened by FAO Ban Ki Moon has called for an increase food production by 50%. Before him, Jacques Diouf, FAO director general, has asked for money and wondered aloud "How do we explain to people with common sense and good faith which is not possible to find U.S. $ 30,000 million a year to enable 862 million hungry people to enjoy the most fundamental of human rights: the right to food, and therefore the right to life?. I am satisfied that there is increasing aid to poor countries, but that does not stop being a patch and an interim solution to the problem. I think, with Vargas Llosa, and many others, that the only way to end once and for all hunger is OPEN MARKETS AND LET THE POOR COUNTRIES THAT ARE POOR BUT NOT IDIOTS, fend for THEMSELVES AND COMPETE WITH RICH COUNTRIES IN TERMS OF EQUALITY AND FREEDOM. Mario Vargas Llosa (The lessons of the poor): "The best help that can be provided by developed countries and international financial organizations to combat poverty and underdevelopment are not handouts or subsidies, contrary to the noble aspirations that encourage them, serve to blunt the initiative and create passive attitudes, dependency and parasitism, and encourage corruption, but to create conditions of freedom and competence that enable the poor to work and stand on their own to improve their living conditions and progress. "" The poverty in which they live hundreds of millions of people still in the world is not inevitable, but an irredeemable evil can be fought and defeated with a weapon whose currency it in four words: work, property private market and freedom. "(Article). FAIRTRADE Wikipedia:" Fair trade means a fair price, ie it does not contain components influenced by interventions or subsidies that distort the concept of fair trade. Complaints and consequent distortions in the market resulting from the subsidies are raised by stakeholders at the World Trade Organization. "