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davez@kth.se

on 2008-07-06 16:21 Martin Kragh wrote:
>
> Just a note on the food debate. If the majority of the populations in 
> the so called Third World are producers of food, shouldn’t they 
> benefit from rising prices? I have not seen any discussion of this in 
> the media, which more often focus on urban regional problems than 
> rural areas (even though this is where the majority of people live).
>

My guess is that the majority of food exported from the poor countries 
is not produced by the rural peasantry engaged in small-scale 
agriculture, but rather capitalist firms. In that case, rising food 
prices will just be a reduction of their real incomes.

If you take a massive country like India, there are very few that 
benefit from the food price inflation.

//Dave Z
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