What Food Crisis?

Image via WikipediaIn what seems like a contradiction of the typical leftist stance, anti-globalist's in Mali assert that the food crisis is manufactured:

While the Group of Eight wealthy nations get together in Japan to discuss the food crisis, an African anti-globalist meeting stressed Africans could help themselves by eating local products.An enticing people's market with locally produced rice, mangoes, traditional medicines and African clothes is part of the so-called "poor people's summit" in Katibougou, Mali, held as a counterbalance to the G8 summit...[continue reading]