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Scrap farm export subsidies to fight food crisis, says Swiss ethicist

Agricultural export subsidies in developed countries which destroy local food production as well as the income of farmers in the global South and therefore contribute to the world food crisis need to be withdrawn, says Swiss ethicist Christoph Stückelberger, reports Ecumenical News International. Writing in the German-language Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger on 17 April, Stückelberger, the CEO of the Geneva-based worldwide ethics-network Globethics.net, and professor of Ethics at the University of Basel said, "The right to adequate food implies three kinds of obligations for States: the obligation to respect, to protect and to provide."

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[04/18/2008]

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