Tonight on FR3: Evidence - Food: the stock market or life? The hunger business.
Bread, flour, oils, pasta, cookies and even meat ... prices keep going up. After soaring oil and energy prices, it's food's turn to break records.
Since 2007 and the subprime crisis, we speculate on wheat, corn, rice, rapeseed, barley and soybeans. The whole staple of our diet has become a financial product like any other.
But that's not all, now global food is in the hands of a few multinationals. They impose a model of industrial agriculture, where farmers have become workers in agribusiness. They too are participating in the soaring prices and the disappearance of local agriculture.
Almost a billion people are hungry, yet not all food is needed to fill stomachs.
A good part of the crops - wheat, corn, rapeseed, soy, sugar - end up in the tank of our cars. The best example: 40% of North American corn is used to make agro-fuels!
Investors and giants of the food industry have embarked on a frantic race to cultivate millions of hectares around the world, in order to seize the best arable land, in Africa or in South America.
The teams of "Exhibits" investigated in France, Africa and South America the real reasons for the food crisis.
guests
Bruno LE MAYOR
Jean-Pierre JOUYET
Olivier DESCHUTTER
Jose BOVE
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