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Les dirigeants des institutions commerciales et financieres mondiales—l’Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC), la Banque mondiale, le Fonds monetaire international (FMI) et l’Organisation de cooperation et de développement economiques (OCDE)—font pression pour aboutir a une conclusion des negociations commerciales du cycle de Doha de l’OMC. Il s’agirait, d’apres eux, d’une solution a la crise alimentaire mondiale. Voici sept raisons pour lesquelles ils ont tort et trois mesures concrètes que les decideurs en matière de politique commerciale devraient prendre afin d’assurer que la population ait accès à la nourriture dont ils ont besoin.

Los lideres de las instituciones financieras y del comercio mundial - Organizacion Mundial del Comercio (OMC), el Banco Mundial, el Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI) y la Organizacion Economica para la Cooperacion y el Desarrollo (OECD) - estan promoviendo el logro de la conclusion de la Ronda de Doha de negociacion de acuerdos comerciales de la OMC, como una manera de solucionar la actual crisis alimentaria. Abajo son desarrolladas siete razones que explican porque estan equivocados, asi como tres pasos concretos que los legisladores deberian seguir para ayudar a asegurarle a la gente alrededor del mundo la obtencion de los alimentos que necesita.

Leaders at the WTO and World Bank are pushing for a Doha Round to help solve the food crisis, but here are seven reasons why they are wrong.

In preparation for the 1996 FAO Food Summit, Karen Lehman detailed how food crisis of the mid-90s had come about, identifying the changes in policy that led to the end of food reserves and supply management programs world-wide.

A call for a Sustainable Food Security Convention originally made made to FAO in 1996 and presented here in the last updated version from 1999.

A memo from Mark Ritchie summarizing the need for a global campaign for supplay managment and grain reserves. This memo led to the drafting of an Action Plan submitted to the FAO in Rome, November 1996.

A review of the economic projections, from the World Bank and other institutions, that show how limited the gains are for most developing countries and how high the hidden costs of an agreement could be.