World food prices and Dr. Vandana Shiva

Dr Shiva speaks to 101 East Al Jazeera on the world food crisis. For those of you who are not familiar with her work, it is worth hearing the words of this physicist, economist, environmentalist, political activist and so much more. The show also features voices from the Asian Development bank, who of course wish to continue dishing out advise that will serve the economies of the rich.

Haven't we seen that Free Trade Agreements and globalization don't work, from nations such as Indonesia, Mexico, Argentina and The Philippines? The WTO, IMF, and World Bank plans to empower developing nations are clearly failing (and I wonder why, perhaps because they are not built to work?). This programme shows how the world food crisis has affected the world's poor most heavily, with a focus on Cambodia. Having travelled throughout Cambodia in 2006/7, I wonder how the families that make up impoverished communities are surviving now, this clearly indicates their struggles.

This is what happens when you subsidise Western farmers and push their products on to economically disadvantaged nations, this is what they call trade liberalization?

Dr Shiva works against the fallacy of Free Trade agreements that see an eradication of protectionism and trade barriers, that subsequently lead to developing nations opening up their markets to exploitation and a continuation of third world debt.

Is it little wonder that India and China said no to the Doha agreement? Just after Peru has joined the likes of Bolivia and Venezuela in saying 'no' after decades of privatization.

I love how Dr Shiva just says it how it is.