Food Crises and Trade are Inextricably Linked

Our broken global agricultural model is in desperate need of a fix! 

An undeniable link exists between food crises and the domination of corporation investment in the business of agriculture. Corporate investment policies, with an overarching aim to increase market shares, can be connected in numerous detrimental ways to the continued decline in the effectiveness of the current agricultural model.  Corporations are given legal protections and certain special privileges in deciding trade policies and the results are undemocratic at best. Agricultural laborers, developing economies, and grassroots businesses inevitably suffer in the most immediate sense and the ripple effect expands to reach multiple subsistence and human rights concerns. It's time for consumers to take action, educate ourselves, and work to remove this power from the corporate stranglehold and put it back in the hands of grassroots movements, workers, and communities where it belongs!

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