for the full story we've got it from the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers. of us one nearly our sofa monday morning here in the russian capital top stories now from the week on not fears of foreign intervention in violence torn libya where the earlier capture of british soldiers outraged at a foreign presence in the region experts say it's not concern for these nice people but interest in oil as food and some western reactions to be on the rest of the u.s. economy already suffering from soaring prices at the pump. hillary clinton asked for extra funds to spread the u.s. media message abroad as a growing number of people turn to other countries' news outlets to get a fresh view on world events. and russia's law enforcement is about to get

a major overhaul starting with a dramatic read grounding of the service tries to improve its reputation any question however whether the much trumpeted reform will go beyond paperwork and cosmetics. thomas will be here and that's in half an hour as the news continues but in the meantime when there's no shortage of food on this planet millions of people still starving every day well next we investigate who's winning from the world famine that special report is next on our. god in order to understand how the system works it is necessary to look at the parties involved the producer and the buyer for example the producer and the fire agree that one will sell and the other will buy a specific amount of weight at a specific price and the product will be delivered in a year from now for that they sign an agreement which is known as a time conflict time. such contracts insure producers and buyers against such

risks as bad weather and sudden changes in prices. was if you're a farmer you're afraid the prices are going to fall off you can lock in the price months ahead of when you harvest by selling here and get rid of the risk or you can do the same if you're a fool buyer a processor like drug general mills or tell all odds or closest and you can lock in the priced of the grain months ahead of when you actually need to buy it so that when you actually do go buy it if prices are much higher you've got it for already at a much lower price not. these contracts do not remain in there they are bought and sold by profiteers and a contract might swap hands dozens of times before it expires for example buyers purchase contracts for wheat at

a low price if the price we close up they have made a profit. we're transferrin risk whole purpose of the exchange is to transfer risk from people that have it like farmers and don't want it to people like myself speculators and take the risk because if you take a risk and you're right to make money course if you are wrong you lose money. since two thousand and six big players have the gum so they appear at the succumb to brain. now there not only traditional players of the pits but also managers of huge financial institutions that until a few years ago showed no interest in investing in food. the financial markets which had been very greedy in lending money for mortgages in

the united states lost on the mortgage market the son prime crisis as it was called led to a collapse in investments. with the markets crumbling because of the mortgage crisis highly investing profiteers saw a new opportunity and. they invaded the chicago markets and began to buy time contracts in unprecedented quantities causing prices to shoot up. investors sometimes of real estate and housing and jumped on the bandwagon of primary commodities food commodities then money and the monopoly control of every business companies like cargill drove the prices upwards. i totally disagree with that kind of talk speculators are not the high end the big rise in prices speculation has very very little to do with it.

when bubbles break liquid gets splashed all over the place and yes there is not a question there was some relative so. i don't doubt for a moment that speculators move grain prices though i think that they move grain prices by one hundred percent now i think that speculators problem move move the grain prices by. twenty percent fifteen percent. of the prices would have gone up anyway. because of the weather problems on the we've got our and the export bans on tight world stocks that's why prices went up the hunger that has become permanent and global is totally a creation of the global food system the global food system is not created to feed the people of the world it's created to maximize the profits for

monsanto the seeds of cargill for trade for selling pesticides herbicides fertilizer in the period of two thousand and seven to two thousand and eight while food prices doubled the profits of these companies also doubled. so if you want to understand why prices are going up while people like less you just have to look at these companies' incentives by love every single day of the world cargill controls about seventy percent of staple food street in the world and they want that control under the sand and they would like the situation with the pray that says give us this day our daily bread is a prayer not to go to the creator but is a prayer card and send. us company monsanto is the world's biggest trader of genetically modified seeds. it began as a small producer of chemicals turning into one of the creators of the infamous

agent orange in the sixty's and seventy's a poison that was used in the vietnam war it deforested huge areas and caused cancer and tetra genesis which continues to affect the country even today. in two thousand and two the company obtained permission from the government of india to introduce a genetically modified cotton seed in the markets no one knows bt called it is genetically enriched in laboratories with the bacteria capable of killing the parasites that fatten this plant. we have been able to develop a technology called board god of bt cotton technology where we. produce a seed that has inbuilt protection to pests thereby helping farmers almost double their cotton production reduce the number of pesticides they've been using in the field to control those and really increase their average income in six years after

the introduction of. india has become the world's second largest producer and the second largest exporter in six years of introduction of. for centuries the farmers of india cultivated their farms and their seeds which were given to them by mother earth. they are a gift from the gods that belong to no one and gave everyone the right to use. them how might it be. there within we would plant our own seeds from what we used for food we would keep a few the following year we would plant those same seeds. which i say were natural said. if there was a dry old they'd come out fine just the same if. we had our own slaves

we didn't go to the market and we had no separate expenses for that number. so. so so. so. so. we had cotton and we had corn we had her purse we had everything. the seeds yours. they were ours the peppers the corn the cotton were ours. and you

want to price for your crop. yes i even won a prize so if your seeds were good why did you take the others the others were also using them we thought we could get a better harvest. and we used them. that's how it happened. with the seeds we got ourselves into debt. so. when we got there. they assured us we would get two hundred kilos from each field. the first time we had only a few expenses for the seeds. then we used fertilizers once or twice. now we use them five times and it's not enough.

i mean not only the soil has lost its strength because of the bt cotton if we use a different seed nothing grows you don't use your own seeds no we do not. stay. you can't imagine there deception they would bring bt seeds and say we don't need to use a lot of chemicals. and for a year it was like that however the following year a new paris a bug arrived really. right at the beginning they said we wouldn't need to spray at all. then they said you must use some for this bug or this for the other bug so what is the situation now. and what does monsanto produce it also produces chemicals and who is the biggest trader in chemicals monsanto you think they'll start bringing their chemicals of pesticides to the market with any

company give up on profit know that therefore yes the farmers in india cultivate expensive crops they depend on multinationals for seeds and medicine for the lies are of which they need more and more focus on the same farmer that spent nothing on seeds before now must spend forty percent on stilts. before there were no expenses on fertilizers now twenty percent goes to that the farmer would not use any pesticides now that amounts to ten percent of all this adds up to seventy percent but they must put on the cost of themselves you know like. i had to when. it was a very bad day he was going round and round with his mother was sick in bed with

you can when he came in sat back there his wife was sleeping there. he didn't see what he did it but he had so can self and petrol. and we saw a very strong fire and then he came in fell here. and we were all here. but have had a full body. with him and he was burning in front of our eyes he burned very quickly and i worked as a. real son to live as. though we did everything we could to save him we took him to the hospital but he died two or three hours later. all of the money and. he would tell us he knew that we told him not to take it too seriously we didn't

imagine he'd do something like that he was worked up and sat thinking alone for hours we would tell him the hard days would pass that's what we tell him that that but . this story that we have suddenly become scandinavians and don't see the sunlight and therefore getting depressed and of farmers and their lives it's amazing how hard put out the human imagination can be when it wants to find excuses to not i understand but really it's a crisis the government's own data shows that the majority of farmers who've

committed suicide with deeply indebted are great at shools the majority of them got injured it was bt country. mostly sides of the two hundred thousand are in the cotton belt most of them have grown before clinton the story of indian farmers is the story of how these debases corporations have emerged as criminal operations i often see if two hundred thousand people had been killed by a dictator we would have called it genocide. suicides in india are a tragic phenomena and unfortunately have existed we had before the introduction of bt cotton in two thousand and two it was the suicides really indebtedness and so

often other causes are inadequate infrastructure and education. in fall sort of the so-called. she would say nothing. she would say nothing about alone i always find him worry deep in the thought. of. she was always worked out is mind was working all the time. she was never happy she would pretend to be happy outside inside the house he seemed lost. i talked to him i told him god was testing us that's not warry all get through this is sad but she said that was impossible

because we had debts and knew harvest. how will belief. how will we raise our children. oh that's more a team and she wouldn't talk launch. when we. were at school and the girls told me her father drank poison i couldn't understand what he drank and what it was.

he will be the late me the seeds they give us that is the main cause of suicide they put in ny a leader is inside i can place it. in the past any tree that gave seeds if we kept them and preserve them for the whole season and planted a tree the next year it would grow just like the one before but it would be cool if we keep the seeds from this one nothing will grow and no one told the farmers this . eventually the village learns that this person cannot produce anything if. it was then not even the loaner will lend him money the bank won't lend him money. and he gets depressed. and it. the day comes when he will do something. and that is why our situation has become so tragic because of the seeds.

but even if the farmers keep the seeds for the following here they risk being sued by the company the seeds are patent protected which means they are the intellectual property of monsanto. as strange as it sounds through this patent to consolidate something that is alive as its own invention and has the right to exploited exclusively for twenty years. each but if a farmer keeps some seeds to plant next year then he is accused of being a criminal. he will be fined with twenty five thousand rupees which is three hundred eighty euros but we can the small farmers pay twenty five thousand rupees. for we would keep our own seeds and use them the following year but if the farmer doesn't do that who have to go all the year. tell me is that fair on humanity certain followers have. entered into

a contract. stating that they will. use the seed for produce in one season and then for some reason to use the seed the following season that violates the contract we had with these farmers it is a very small number. and in most cases we look at these differences out of court so when you apply a patent that you can't see the seed for the growing season you're massively increasing the cost of production for farmers massively. we're boring money from everyone to buy seeds and we ran out of money. to. buy them when they asked us credit my husband killed himself because of the debts with america we couldn't save and i think. the

medical she was depressed the dad was huge. now i don't know what to do when my husband brought me luck if you mean nobody will lend money to woman isn't it the someone especially here. in this situation hurts me and i feel so sad. cottonseed. if you don't have protection against what's. farmers had this very best describes. it scientists i did about decide to sit on the board was able to find a more sustainable way to protect the plant against those that are against that war that was but ecology called bt which is inserted into the sea it's

a product of the science in the seat. of the. trillion dollar gobbling for controls that food supply the seed supply and those companies now are going beyond the paddling of a single plug for id to say we can patent all plants and we can patent all crops with a single part of the work cleaning traits within those varieties and in those crops that are common to all of them. so we control everything we control the filesystem . did they make the seeds know that until today nature made the seeds did they create anything living they couldn't. or as much in seventy's there is no proprietary secret credit whatsoever not really today eighty two percent of the see saw are proprietary or part of

a patent. that's an enormous change. genotyping engineered crops do not produce more food but they tell the lie that the markets more straight does not feed people at least not people hungrier because a globalized tree and then becomes a trade controlled by five and one business corporations who can beat the price as they want and they want to speculate upwards they speculate upwards when they want to fix the prices downwards to capture markets they take the prices down let's and as their profits increase people stop. so they drop what they need out of this they've got to control and frankly now because they have that control they don't need biotech anymore they've got the marketplace is to them they control the first link in the future. one of. the

the was it were the it with the were the we were the. water. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future perhaps sure. but i don't know much about it because there is no market to buy and sell water maybe there will be in the future if i have a market where people who need water and a market of people who have water can get together and through their own best interest discover and that's an important word discover the price of that of that

commodity and the how dare our government how can a government how can. a group of supposed intellectual sit down and say this is the price of water everywhere around the world. will there be circumstances where some people will not have water. yes. that will happen that is the harsh reality of how markets function and the do you sometimes run out of soap yes whose fault is that probably yours if you didn't go to the store to buy any should you blame the government no. it's your fault.

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