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#131 Fadhel Kaboub: Free Trade Isn't Free: Food Sovereignty And Why It Matters

The MMT Podcast with Patricia Pino & Christian Reilly

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Food Subsidy in Tenesia

Food subsidies are not just about food, because you're really subsidizing an entire global economic system. The out sourced manufacturing units that moved from france and italy and germany to tunesia, theyare coming because thereis low cost labor. Low cost labor can't happen unless that labor is able to put food on the table. We want farmers to produce domestic food, high quality food, and sell it and be able to generate a profit. That's the goal. And instead, we have a subsidy system that's a patchwork of a kind of bandate solutions to the problems we've created focusing on foreign direct investment,. export oriented growth and entourism.

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