A new cycle in 8 appointments on the best and most complex subject areas of the reality that surrounds us: it starts yet again with “War and Starvation”, broadcast on Monday 29 August at 21.25 on Rai 3 “PresaDiretta”, the application by Riccardo Iacona and Cristina De Ritis , with the collaboration of Giulia Bosetti, Lisa Iotti, Raffaella Pusceddu.
An episode dedicated to the wheat war triggered by the conflict in Ukraine, but also by local climate improve and speculators. A domino impact that has made a wave of famines and social tensions in previously poor international locations, the increase in food paying that puts people across Europe in difficulty and introduced out the contradictions of the Western agricultural model, which generates and wastes much too significantly.
Guest in the studio with Riccardo Iacona, Maurizio Martina Deputy Director Common of FAO, the Foods and Agriculture Group of the United Nations.
“PresaDiretta” went to Ukraine, a single of the world’s leading producers of cereals, to see the immediate consequences of the war on generation and harvest. Will the reopening of Ukrainian ports to ships carrying grain fix the globe disaster? And then in Lebanon, the place the deficiency of flour and the cost of strength to make bread danger sending the country into default.
In accordance to the Earth Financial institution, each and every 1 percentage point enhance in foodstuff charges pushes 10 million people today into serious poverty. Why then does the increase in foods selling prices often have almost nothing to do with the lack of that product? Is there any one who receives rich on planet hunger? Banking institutions, insurance plan providers, hedge cash, pension resources, investment funds have become the significant gamers in the monetary market place for commodities. With what outcomes?
How are European subsidies to agriculture and livestock dispersed, who truly gains and who is penalized? “PresaDiretta” was in Hungary, where by most of the land is in the arms of substantial landowners, speculation on agricultural land is common, smaller farmers are disappearing and natural farming is negligible in comparison to intensive farming. Who is opposed to the venture of a new European agricultural policy that is much more sustainable for the natural environment?
“War and starvation” is a tale by Riccardo Iacona with Marcello Brecciaroli, Elisabetta Camilleri, Daniela Cipolloni, Lisa Iotti, Elena Marzano, Irene Sicurella, Fabio Colazzo, Raffaele Manco, Massimiliano Torchia.
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