WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY SICILIA News Journal Update - (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria: Agricultural and food sovereignty - the bluff of Made in Italy. (Part One) (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 

From October 13 to 15, 2023, in Rome, Coldiretti promoted the national
meeting "I am with the farmers", "the best Italian food", and founded
the Little Italy Village of excellent, typical products. With the
contribution of ENI, Intesa San Paolo, Snam, Terna, Philip Morris
Italia, Ferrovie dello Stato, ENEL, Gruppo Cremonini, McDonald's...
which are not small and organic. ---- The "Small is beautiful" fairy
tale is contradicted by real data: the beef sector has a trade deficit
of 3.3 billion, which means that more live fattening animals, fresh and
frozen meat, preparations are imported from Poland, France, Holland and
Spain as what we export. Self-catering only covers 42.5% of the market,
a market managed by multinational companies such as Inalca (production),
Marr (distribution, Cremonini Group), Chef Express and Roadhouse (catering).

      Italy imports more agrifood in value terms than it exports: 29.8
billion versus 29.4 billion (Source: Ismea 2022); Fish and extra virgin
olive oil from Spain, live cattle and wheat from France, cheese from
Germany, soybeans from Brazil, with 400,000 fewer farms in 10 years and
a decrease in cultivated area of 2.5%, 10% of land subject to fragility:
a strange concept of "food sovereignty".

     Food supply chains are part of a global food system governed by a
few multinational corporations, as in the case of grains: when Syngentya
and Monsanto (now Bayer) have absolute control of the world seed market
with Corteva Agriscience, Basf, Kws with 58.3%, Archer Daniels Midland
(Adm), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfuss control 90% of world trade and
its supply chains: they are able to artificially create the prices of
corn, soybeans and canola; Under the pretext of the war in Ukraine, they
increased their profits by 74% in 2022 to 2021, where Ukrainian wheat
accounts for only 2% of world exports of 3,000 million tons to 500
million tons per year.

     The pesticide market is held at 62.3% by Syngentya, Bayern, BASF
and Corteva. Supranational companies hold 60.5% of the livestock sector,
"Genetic Improvement" (GMO) is in the hands of three multinational
corporations. The effect of oligopolies and monopoly cartels is to
increase consumer prices and maximize profits.

     In economics, if you hold more than 40% of the market, you have a
monopoly and convert the efficiency gains through economies of scale
into profits for the company, which further strengthens itself. On the
other hand, the Made in Italy government in Brussels, through the
European People's Party, is fighting for new GMOs and against the Green
Deal and the Farm-to-Fork strategy, i.e. H. halving the use of
pesticides by 2030; Italy is the country that imports and consumes the
most pesticides in Europe and sixth in the world: 11,500 tons per year
with 400 different substances.

    The agricultural and food system is structurally linked to the
capitalist economic system, whose prices are set on the (private) stock
exchanges of Chicago, Paris and Mumbai, whose main shareholders are the
financial investment funds Black Rock, Vanguard, JP Morgan and State
Street Corp. are . Capital International Investors: You bet on price
developments without having a purchase contract. These funds also
control seed and agricultural production companies and distribution
chains: a gigantic global food monopoly that, by speculating on "crisis
and inflation," has reaped $30 billion in dividends in two years at the
expense of farmers and families.

     In Italy, the ruler of industrial agriculture is the Bonifiche
Ferraresi (BF) holding, listed on the Milan Stock Exchange, blessed by
Coldiretti and Meloni. It owns all major agri-food segments:

- Production and sale of seeds, Società Italiana Sementi SpA;

- Ownership of agricultural land, Bonifiche Ferraresi and BFagricoltura
SpA, the largest in terms of cultivated area of 7,750 hectares in
Ferrara, Arezzo, Oristano, Grosseto (rice, corn, durum and soft wheat,
barley, sugar beet, alfalfa, soy). , vegetables, medicinal plants, fruit).

- Drafting supply chain contracts, Filiera bovini Italia srl with
Coldiretti partnership;

- Grain milling systems with Milling Hub SpA;

- Product transformation with BF agro-industriale Srl;

- Food brands in supermarkets with "The Seasons of Italy";

- Consorzi Agrari d'Italia Spa, services and products for agricultural
operators.

- Eurocap Petroli for the sale of fuels for agricultural vehicles (135
million sales as of June 30, 2022)

As of October 2022, the main shareholders of BF are Aurum Spa of
Federico Vecchioni, former CEO of Confagricoltura, with 20.13%; Dompè
Holding Srl with 20.04%, a financial company with reference to the
multinational pharmaceutical company Dompè; Cariplo Foundation with
19.29%; Cdp equity Spa, public investor on behalf of Cassa Depositi e
Prestiti - in turn 83% controlled by the Ministry of Economy and 16% by
banking foundations -. BF continues to expand by acquiring cereal
production companies such as Ghigi 1870 Spa, Bia Spa (couscous), Pasta
Fabianelli Spa in order to have absolute control of the Italian wheat
supply chain.

   "the government does not want to disturb those who want to do and
create wealth", Giorgia Meloni at Villaggio Coldiretti Milan, October
2022, first public outing.

    Industrial and intensive agriculture and its food supply chain are
the main causes of the loss of biodiversity, the disappearance of
habitats through monoculture, climate change and the degradation of
ecosystems. Of food inequality and access to food. They are a source of
diseases, of a reduction in life expectancy which affects consumers with
poor health, reduced to the biological capital of the healthcare
industry, whose shareholders are often the same as the agro-industrial
sector.

Roberto Brioschi

Thanks to Altreconomia Edizioni and Riccardo Bocci Technical Director
"Rete dei Semi Rurali"

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