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Amor wrote:

"konye nan kesion production agricole saa, ki politik gouvernement an ta dwe pran pou fe en sorte ke terre a li cultiver yon fason selon regle agriculture, poter solution nan zone l'artibonite kote fanmille ap kouper tete fanmille pou terre. et rendre agriculture a yon bagay pays a ka konter sou li pou bay tout citoyen manger et flanquer pois pinto, du riz kennedy, ak tout lot zagribay yo dehors nan pays a."

Haiti-now replies:

1. Every country in the world has the resources necessary for its people to free themselves from hunger.

2.To balance a country's population and resources, it is urgent to address the root cause of both hunger and high birth rates:the insecurity and poverty of the majority that results from the control over basic national resources by a few.

3.Hunger is only made worse when approached as a technical problem. Hunger can only be oivercome by the majority first transforming the social structures so that they directly participate in building a democratic economic system.

4. Safeguarding the world's agricultural environment and people freeing themselves from hunger are complementary goals.

5. The hungry are our allies, not our ennemies nor a perpetual burden. Our food security is not threatened by hungry people but by a system that concentrates economic power into the hands of elites who profit by the generation of scarcity and the internationalization of food control.

6.Export agriculture is not the enemy. But in a society where only a few control the productive resources, export-oriented agriculture strenghtens the grip of those elites. To insure food security, agriculture must become, first and foremost, a way for people to produce their food and livelihood and secondarily a possible source of foreign exchange.

7. Justice and production are complementary goals. The most wasteful and inefficient food system is one controlled by a few in the interests of a a few.

8.Hunger cannot be eliminated by denying pepole's freedom but by encouraging participation in decision- making. In order to achieve Freedom from the fear of hunger for everyone, however,it may be necessary to limit the choices of some. This ongoing tension between the right of everyone for basic security and the right of the individual for freedom of choice is one that exists within every society.

9. The appropriate response of Americans to hunger abroad is not more or even improved government foreign "aid".They must work instead to help remove the obstacles in the way of peoples's efforts fotr self determination, especially those obstacles being built by U.S economic and military interventions abroad and by the penetration of U.S based corporations.

10. The role of the Americans is not to go and "set things right" for wherever people are hungry there are already many ordinary, brave men and women working to democratize the control over food-producing resources.

Source:

The Institute for Food and Development Policy USA.

A suivre.