http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/taxonomy/term/237/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/362 <p>Roger Burbach, whose 1980 book <a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/3372082/32657207">Agribusiness in the Americas</a> blew open the story of corporate power and food on this continent, has sent his latest thoughts on agribusiness and Bolivia. </p> <p>The Rise of Food Fascism:<br /> Allied to Global Agribusiness, Agrarian Elite Foments Coup in Bolivia</p> <p>By Roger Burbach</p> <p>Like many third world countries Bolivia is experiencing food shortages and rising food prices attributable to a global food marketing system driven by multinational agribusiness corporations. With sixty percent of the Bolivian population living in poverty and thirty-three percent in extreme poverty, the price of the basic food canasta--including wheat, rice, corn, soy oil and potatoes, as well as meat—has risen twenty-five percent over the past year with prices gyrating wildly in the local markets.<span class='read-more'><a href="http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/362"> ... read more &raquo;</a></span></p> http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal/node/362#comment -17.018429 -61.100965 agribusiness Bolivia soy Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:58:22 -0600 Raj 362 at http://stuffedandstarved.org/drupal