imagine these helmeted warriors crossing Portuguese South American jungles in search of gold metals. Which seas through rivers, new beasts under attack, forcing their way through jungles with machetes clean ... With an eye on every corner. Looking at the heavens for a sign, looking glow on the tops of the mountains .... And today, centuries later, we know where was the coveted Gold: exactly under the boots of those arrogant men. Because they are the soils of the Southern Cone of America's largest source and supply of fuel to power the excesses of capitalism, its jaws, exemplified in the fast food. That is, the crazy consuming, swallowing everything and fast , while the time taken pauses. Fat fuel, fuel for machinery and, in the meantime, paralyzed thinking.
know in Brazil-and-operated well. A soybean crop base (with its flour fatten farm animals and produce oil with lots of pastries) of sugar cane crops (which will lead to ethanol for biofuels) and livestock. Just thinking about the Brazil-Europe relationship will note the dimensions of this triplet. Brazil has become the fourth supplier of beef to Europe, with more than 250,000 tons in 2009, a third of their soybean yields tremendous buys Europe, and has managed to place in Europe a quarter of all ethanol exports.
But this insatiable demand for meat, animal feed and agrofuels European profits just let the big Brazilian corporations and international capital partner. The rest of the population (and the planet as a whole) will report a continued destruction of the Amazon and the Cerrado, with the usual implications for the climate, biodiversity and the thousands of people that persistent, still inhabiting these places .
A recent report by Friends of the Earth reveals that, in recent years is the expansion of sugar cane, that is, the pull-European biofuels to the most significant cause of deforestation in Brazil, surpassing the grounds that the soya and cattle stolen annually from forests and jungles. But beyond positions, worrying what are your predictions report, it indicates that the production of these three raw materials continue to grow without the Brazilian legislation has the courage to put the agribusiness in the place it deserves. In the bedroom.
extractive political arguments such as Brazil (with and without Lula), and know, and are the same as defending agribusiness lobbies and neoliberal institutions like the International Monetary Fund or World Bank report meet European demand currency for the country's development. But neither the thousands of landless families living in makeshift camps, or the health of planet foreign nourish and dividends. So, for our part, we must excuse unfeasible. To the extent that our policies with the Common Agricultural Policy as a central, bet on our own food sovereignty, we will open up spaces for new ways of understanding agriculture in the countries of the South.
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