Would it be fair to say that globalisation has been harmful to food security in developing countries?
I think so. It has been problematic because countries have not been able to manage its impact on the poorest strata of the population. Theoretically it is not irreconcilable, but in practice it has not been well-managed and it has led to all the investments going to export chains and leaving out large segments of the rural community. Of the 1 billion hungry, 50% are small farmers, 25% are landless labourers working in plantations and 25% are urban poor that very often come from rural areas as a result of an exodus due to difficult conditions of living in the countryside. The disempowerment and marginalisation of the rural areas are the root causes of hunger. These resulted from mismanagement of globalisation. You also often mention intellectual property rights (IPR) in your speeches. Isn’t IPR key to increasing food productivity? We do not necessarily need property rights. What we need is investment. Now the question is: who is going to invest for whom? The risk is to believe that simp
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