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now. and the euro danger brussels calls for tougher economic governance. joint boring for all seventeen year old nations something that germany imposes its fear. as it goes through its worst ever. with more on those stories more developments and. in the meantime it's our special report for you how the world is producing more food than ever for one but still struggles to feed the planet's poorest. was 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 buyer agree that one will sell m 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 contract was such contracts insure producers and buyers against such

risks as bad weather and sudden changes and prices. was if you're a farmer you're afraid the prices are going to fall you can lock in the price months ahead of when you harvest by selling here and get rid of the risk well you can do the same if you're a food buyer a processor like doug general mills or kellogg's or post 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 a lot of. these contracts do not remain in earth 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 take the risk because if you take a risk and you're right to make money course if you're wrong you lose money. since two thousand and six big players have begun to appear at the succumb to green monster. now they're 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 profiteer saw a new opportunity in food 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 on planes like cargill drove the prices upwards. i don't i totally disagree with that kind of talk that speculators are not the high end the big rise in prices speculation has

a very very little to do with it. when bubbles break. we could get splashed all over the place and yes there's not a question there was some are relative so. i don't doubt for a moment that speculators move grain prices do 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. and prices would have gone up anyway. because of the weather problems on the weak dollar and the export bans on tight world stocks that's why prices run 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 the

monsanto but 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 well be the lighting less you just have to look at these companies when senators buying up every seat company of the world cargill controls about seventy percent of staple food treat in the world and they would like to control hundred percent and they would like the situation where the prayer that says give us this day our daily bread is a prayer not to call the creator but is a pray card and then 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 with the force to huge areas and cause 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 threaten this plant. we have been able to develop a technology called board god the bt cotton technology where we. produce a seed that has in bits protection to pests thereby helping farmers almost double their production reduce the number of pesticides they've been using in the field to

control those and really increase their average income in six feel after the introduction of. become the world's second largest producer and the second largest exporter in six introduction of. for centuries the farmers of india cultivated their farms and their seeds which were given to them by mother earth. and. they are a gift from the gods that belong to no one and gave everyone the right to use. them how much. 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. with which they were natural said. if there was a drought they'd come out fine just the same if. we had our own

slaves we didn't go to the market we had no separate expenses for that. it's. so. so it's so. so. we had cotton we had corn we had pers we had everything. with these seeds yours. but 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 lawn we thought we could get a better harvest. and we used them to that's how it happened. with these seeds we got ourselves into debt. and. so. 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.

they. 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. stuff. yeah you can't imagine their deception they would bring p.t. 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 parasite the above arrived. 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 this month on to produce it also produces chemicals and who is the biggest trader in chemical semen sample do you think they'll start bringing their chemicals and

pesticides to the market would any company give up on profit no. but. if the farmers in india cultivate expensive crops they depend on multinationals for seeds and medicine for the allies or of which they need more and more. on the same farmer that spent nothing on seeds before now must spend forty percent on seeds. before there were no expenses and fertilizer 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 not . it was a very bad day he was going round and round with his mother was sick in bed when he

came in sat back there his wife was sleeping there. he didn't see what he did but he had soaked him self in petrol. and we saw a very strong fire and then he came in felt here. we were all here. but i was a body. and he was burning in front of our eyes he burned very quickly as a good. girl smiled in it as. we did everything we could to save him we took him to the hospital but he died two or three hours later. in the dark and. he would tell us he knew we told him not to take it too seriously we didn't imagine he would do

something like that he was worked up and sat thinking alone for hours he would tell them the hard days would pass that's what they tell him that with em. the story is that we have suddenly become scandinavians and don't see the sunlight and therefore getting depressed in our families and their lives it's amazing how hard put out the human imagination get to be when it wants to find excuses to not i understand the real roots of the crisis but the problem and own data shows that the

majority of farmers who have committed suicide with deeply indebted are dying to shools the majority of them got injured it was the country. most new sides of the two hundred thousand are in the cotton belt most of them have grown bt clinton the story of indian farmers is the story of how these are bases corporations have emotions as criminal corporations i often see if two hundred thousand people have been killed by a dictator we would have gone into genocide. in india a tragic phenomena that unfortunately have existed we before the introduction of bt cotton in two thousand and two it was suicides very indebtedness and then so often

other causes are inadequate infrastructure and education. and for all sorts of. she will say nothing. she will say nothing about alone i always find him worry deep in thought. she was always worked up his 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 just in us that's not warry all get through this i said but he said that was impossible

because we had debts and knew harvest. how will belief how will raise our children how. old it worried him and he wouldn't talk much. when. we were in school and the girls told me your father drank poison i couldn't understand what he drank and what it was.

will be believe me the seeds they give us that is the main cause of suicide they put annihilators inside. 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 that it would be if we keep the seeds from this one nothing will grow no one told the farmers this. eventually the village learns that this person cannot produce anything. but. 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 year 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. 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 be small farmers pay a twenty five thousand rupee fine. before 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 seeds each year. tell me is that fair on humanity certain followers have.

entered into a contract. stating that they will. use the seed. and then for some reason to use the seed the following season that. 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. that you can't see the seed for the growing season you're massively increasing the cost of production for farmers massively. when burridge money from everyone to buy seeds we ran out of money. right when they asked us credit my husband killed himself because of the debts with mabel well dad couldn't say anything. to the medical she was

depressed the dad was huge. monitor that now i don't know what to do when my husband brought to mommy. nobody will lend money to woman or the kid to some of them especially here. in this situation helps me and i feel so sad. for the cottonseed. have protection against. farmers had this protest a sort of. scientists i recall decided to sit on the wall was able to find a more sustainable we to protect the plot against those against that war well that was but. which is and. it's

a product of the science in the street. truly an oligopoly that controls our 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 to work cleaning traits within those varieties getting those crops that are common to all of them. so we control everything we control the food system . 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 planet whatsoever not really about today eighty two percent of

the seeds sold are proprietary or part of it so that's an enormous cherry. genotypic engineered crops do not produce more food but they tell the light that the markets more straight does not feed people at least not people hungry because a globalized street then becomes a trade controlled by five agribusiness corporations who can pick the prices as they want when they want to speculate up let's speculate upwards when they want to fix the prices downwards to capture markets they take the prices down lots and as their profits increase people stop. so they've got 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 big control the first link in the future. so they want.

the was it was the it with the was it were were the. water. possibly it's not traded now but it could be in the future perhaps or. 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. the world 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. was. 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 because you didn't go to the store to buy any should you blame the government no. it's your fault.