The Manufactured crisis; Shifting Food Production from People Needs to Market Demands;

Barkat Shah Kakar Lecturer University of Balochistan Department of Pashto and Visiting faculty member IDSP Pakistan The Manufactured crisis;Shifting Food Production from People Needs to Market Demands;

Spiritual foundations of all tradition: Triangle of God, Man and Nature. Tradition fostering friendly relationship with Nature as the creature of the God. Human Accountability to God for its utilization of natural resources. Nature is living. Nature has for human needs but not for greed , Luxury or over consumption. The Traditional Paradigm

The ethics and mechanisms of Production. Avoid over production. Mechanisms of Preservation of biodiversity Prohibition of Hunting in the reproductive months. Growing for local Needs. Share of the socially Marginalized and Poor. Traditional Mode of Food Production

The Local made Fishing Net, with suitable size of holes. The species prohibited religiously are not netted. The local needs drive the boats. The Particular size of Fish is targeted. Use of poison, Gun powder etc is strictly prohibited. Borrowing from the wters, Traditional wisdom and ethics of Fishing.

Belief of the accountability to the mother earth. The mechanism of the preservations of forests and natural fuel. The preservation of the water reservoirs. The values of protecting the human life in the desert. Making Zero Waste possible, recycling all residuals to the earth for regaining its fertility. The local level experts, labors, technology, seeds, tools and wisdom with no import, shipping or transport. Borrowing Food and Shelter from the Earth….

A Tsunami occurs each week in the so-called third world due to hunger and starvation which takes lives of 210000 children. The sixth Great Extinction is at the door step. Extinction of sea food till 2040. The complete socio-economic and political dependence of self reliant south on the barren and rigid north. The Journey from self reliance to total dependency (1950’s-2008)

Initiating the Development game,1948 Development of the Underdeveloped. Creating the market for Agro-chemicals and technology1950-60. Loans money diverted for purchasing the technology. Changing the local/indigenous technology, tools, knowledge and mechanisms of growing and production. Shifting the Production mode, From Local needs to Market demands . How it all happened

The growing urbanization and degradation of food quality. Wretched of the earth; The alarming disaster to nature. The emergence of new power structure based on the unjust traditional hierarchy. The agro-chemicals as inevitable ingredients of food. Huge level migration occur due to over consumption of water, forests and fertility of land. The Manufactured Crisis through “Green Revolution”

Revitalizing the religious and spiritual values and ethics which pose resistance to over production and greed. Respecting and re-learning the traditional repressed knowledge, wisdom and tools. Re-creating the human and environment friendly technology and tools. Growing the locally needed organic food. Say no to GMOs. Say no to shipped and imported food. Posing resistance to the production of Bio-fuel from food. Countering the damage; Possibilities and hopes

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The Manufactured crisis; Shifting Food Production from People Needs to Market Demands;