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ECDPM Weekly Compass Extended Version LibraryGuardian analysis
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30 Aug 08
beth gourleyThe scramble for resources means the wealthy nations have and the poor countries do not Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Fcommentisfree%2F2008%2Faug%2F26%2Ffood.eu
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Mike Davis tells the story of the famines that sucked the guts out of India in the 1870s
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Lord Lytton, oversaw the export to England of a record 6.4m hundredweight of wheat
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"the most colossal and expensive meal in world history", between 12 million and 29 million people died
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Peter Mandelson
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hopes to impose a treaty that will permit Europe to snatch food from the mouths of some of the world's poorest people.
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Seventy per cent of the protein eaten by the people of Senegal comes from fish.
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The EU has two big fish problems
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One is that, partly as a result of its failure to manage them properly, its own fisheries can no longer meet European demand
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he other is that its governments won't confront their fishing lobbies and decommission all the surplus boats
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Senegal's marine ecosystem has started to go the same way as ours.
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In a recent report on this pillage, ActionAid shows that fishing families that once ate three times a day are now eating only once or twice
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The government of Senegal knows this, and in 2006 it refused to renew its fishing agreement with the EU.
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This is one instance of the food colonialism that is again coming to govern the relations between rich and poor counties
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Last week the environmental group WWF published a report on the UK's indirect consumption of water, purchased in the form of food.
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Middle Eastern countries, led by Saudi Arabia, are securing their future food supplies by trying to buy land in poorer nations.
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