Pandemic food system politics in North Africa / Sylvia Kay + Hamza Hamouchene
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This Is Hell!
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🗓️ 4 October 2021
⏱️ 84 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The water is with the |
| 0:14.0 | the Lord is with the work of our power. making back. This is hell. |
| 0:37.0 | hell. |
| 0:42.0 | Behind every... Hell. |
| 0:58.0 | Behind every great fortune lies a great crime, because this is hell and great fortunes are being made right now off of crimes against humanity. |
| 0:59.0 | Profiteering from crimes like poverty, hunger, malnutrition, land dispossession, and inequality. |
| 1:05.6 | International agencies like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade |
| 1:09.8 | Organization, are promising poorer and more vulnerable nation's debt relief in exchange for |
| 1:15.3 | opening their agricultural sectors to foreign markets and reorienting food |
| 1:21.0 | production towards exports instead of focusing on the domestic market and feeding its own people. |
| 1:25.2 | Of course when farms are prioritizing production for the globalized agriculture sector |
| 1:30.8 | that means locals become more dependent on imported food. The problem is during |
| 1:35.9 | times of crisis, you know, like a pandemic or climate change or both at the same time, those imports |
| 1:42.4 | can be disrupted at leaving the people |
| 1:44.8 | without farms producing the food they need to eat. All of those challenges |
| 1:50.1 | multiply when you are a small-scale farmer who does not depend on the more |
| 1:53.8 | formal market that is imposed by the World Bank IMF WTO as well as corporate |
| 1:59.0 | friendly local leadership and as small scale farming is dominated by women who still suffer from patriarchy, it is worst for vulnerable mothers and their children. |
| 2:10.0 | On top of all of that, the demands demands the global food market contributes mightily to |
| 2:16.0 | low wages, abuse, and unsafe work conditions conditions that have only |
| 2:21.2 | worsened under COVID-19. |
| 2:25.0 | But what do you expect when neoliberalism is implemented by |
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