raj from south africa on trade


One of the things that's gonna happen at the G8 conference is that the G8 countries are going to talk about agriculture. These countries are the ones that have been pushing on the world a vastly unequal system of agricultural trade. A system that demands that farmers in the Global South turn their fields from growing food for themselves and their communities into food for export. The argument being that this is the most efficient use of their land.

Now one of the things that's also going to be happening at this G8 conference is that there'll be some organisations from the North saying, “Let's make trade fair. Let's have fair trade. Let's improve the World Trade Organisation. Let's improve the organisations that are run by these countries, by the G8 to make trade proper and better for the poor.

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