Small Farmers Say Commodity Speculators Cause Poverty in Mexico Patricia Munoz Rios - La Jornada
go to original May 22, 2013

Facing the over pricing of the basic food basket, millions of Mexican families have to spend up to 90 percent of their income buying food, stated the National Campesino [small farmer] Confederation (NCC).

The National Campesino Confederation indicated that this phenomenon occurs mostly in rural areas, where incomes are the lowest in the country, which is why it is important to stop the [international commodity] speculators who have contributed to the high level of poverty and lack of access to basic products for half the population.

This, along with the lack of credit and public and private investment, and the lack of transference of science and technology to the Mexican countryside has hindered strengthening food sovereignty and security, to the point that in the past two presidential terms (12 years), the cost of imported basic products has risen 223 percent.

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Translated by Tammy Nolan

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