The world faces a food crisis due to war, sanctions, and inflation. China
has shown how to strengthen food sovereignty, while fighting poverty, with
state-funded agricultural cooperatives, government crackdown on waste, and
investment in technology.
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How China strengthened food security and fought poverty with state-funded cooperativesThe Covid-19 pandemic, the ensuing supply-chain crisis, and high rates of inflation around the world have led to rising food prices and fears of famine.
These cascading and interlocking problems have pushed governments to prioritize economic self-sufficiency and food sovereignty.
China has led the way in the battle for food sovereignty. Beijing has shown how to strengthen food sovereignty, and simultaneously fight poverty, with a multi-pronged approach that combines state-funded agricultural cooperatives, stockpiling of nonperishable staples, a crackdown on waste, and government investment in new technologies.
While the United Nations warns of “the specter of a
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People’s War on Covid-19, hunger, and poverty
The People’s Republic of China has additionally
expanded unions to commercial food workers and delivery workers, for popular apps like Didi and Meituan, to make sure that workers have higher wages and better conditions, and that food delivery can be maintained through a well paid and loyal workforce.
This has all been part of what Beijing calls its “
People’s War on Covid-19,” whereby state-facilitated labor unions, non-governmental social institutions, and state bodies work togther to collectively fight the virus.
China is similarly creating a framework to wage a people’s war on hunger and food insecurity.
The Chinese socialist system produces results. It utilizes state power to organize the people, gauges material conditions to determine long-term needs, and meet them. It succeeds in these goals where other political systems are failing.
US set up for food crisis disaster
The contrast with the US system could hardly be more stark.
Washington helped to foment the food crisis in the first place, with
draconian sanctions that are will it hard for poor countries to buy wheat and fertilizer.
Food prices are rising rapidly inside the United States, due to a combination of general inflation and blatant
price-gouging by corporations.
Crop growing cycles are off to a bad start in 2022, with US agricultural production lagging behind its five-year average in
planting goals.
Transportation of goods has also become more precarious, as grueling working conditions have rendered significant
shortages of truck drivers, thereby raising prices on consumers even further, as delays become more common for many goods.
Farmers in the United States have raised alarms about the possibility of serious
problems in food security.
Meanwhile, Congress and US political leaders have failed to create a long-term strategy to address domestic food security needs. Instead, they have proposed a haphazard
food aid plan that experts say does not apportion adequate sums of money.
In a revealing comment at NATO headquarters in March, US President
Joe Biden conceded, “With regard to food shortage, yes, we did talk about food shortages. And – and it’s going to be real. The price of these sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia, it’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.”
All signs indicate that a food crisis is coming. And unlike leaders in capitalist nations, the leadership of the Communist Party of China has used foresight, long-term planning, and methods of socialist construction to prepare.
In much the same way that the People’s Republic of China successfully handled Covid-19, it is setting itself up to weather the crisis domestically – while still showing
international solidarity abroad.
As this crisis arises, let it not be forgotten that socialist leadership in China was responsible for ensuring its people were protected, and that it took concrete steps to ensure that it’s people would be safe, while the leadership of capitalist countries left their people to die.
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