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Crisis de los alimentos: lecciones de la historia reciente

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  • Silva, Jose

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Este articulo presenta los aprendizajes obtenidos en la crisis de precios de los alimentos de los anos 70 en donde los precios reales, subieron a niveles mucho mas altos que los actualles y muestra una amplia coincidencia con la situacion del precio de los alimentos que vivamos hoy. De la crisis actual hay una serie de elementos de diagnosticos que son consensuados, otros aun son materia de debate, sin embargo lo que es claro es que nos enfrentamos a un nuevo mercado de commodities agricola. El texto pone en evidencia dos conclusiones fundamentales; en primer lugar, el contecto de mayor volatibilidad de los mercados financieros y las tendencias estructurales de la economia mundial, imponen la urgencia de concieros y las tendencias estructurales de la economia mundial, imponen la urgencia de contar con politicas de seguridad alimentaria a largo plazo como politica de estado. En segundo lugar, la situacion actual es una oportunidad para que paises como politica de estado. En segundo lugar, la situacion actual es una oportunidad para que paises de la region, puedan reposicionar sus agriculturas en el contexto mundial, y promover iniciativas para que paises importadores construyan politicas de substitucion de importaciones agricolas con recursos ociosos de tierra y mano de obra existentes de la agricultura familiar campesina...This article analyzes and presents the learning acquired during the food crisis of the 70's when the real prices raised to much higher levels than the current ones constituting a wide coincidence with the food price situation we are living today. In the current crisis, there is a series of diagnosis elements which promotes consensus while others are still being debated; however what is clear is that we are facing a new market of agricultural commodities. The text gives evidence of two fundamental conclusions; in the first place, the context of greater volatility of the financial markets and the structural tendencies of the world-wide economy impose the urgency of counting on long term policies of nourishing security as a state policy. In the second place, the current situation is an opportunity for countries in the region to resettle their agriculture in the world context, and promote initiatives so that the imports countries can build up policies of substitution for their agricultural exports using idle land resources and the existing manual labour of the family-based farming agriculture.

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  • Silva, Jose, 2008. "Crisis de los alimentos: lecciones de la historia reciente," Revista Espanola de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros, Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Rural y Marino (formerly Ministry of Agriculture), issue 218, pages 1-26.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:spreea:168099
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.168099
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