Trading Away the Right to Food

This series of narrated PowerPoints explores the impact of globalization on farmers in the Majority World. Suitable for High School classes, the resource comes with a Teachers' Guide and a Cartoon Bank.

This series of narrated PowerPoints explores the impact of globalization on farmers in the Majority World.  Suitable for High School classes,   the resource comes with a Teachers' Guide and a Cartoon Bank.   To download the file, right click the link and select Save Target As (Internet Explorer) or Save Link As (Firefox). Average download time is less than 2 minutes on a high speed connection.

  • PowerPoint  A: Agribusiness -  More than 40% of the world's people try  to survive on $2 a day or less.  The majority depend on agriculture for their income.  This section looks at the connection between poverty  and export agriculture.   Find out which  groups have profited from the steep decline in  export crop prices over the last 20 years   -  and which groups have suffered.  Learn how it has happened.  (Download a copy of Powerpoint A - 14 mb -Windows Media File - wmv)
  • PowerPoint B:  Subsidies and Dumping -  Both the United States and the European Union provide extensive  subsidies  to the large farms  and  the transnational corporations that produce, process  or transport food for export.   Family farmers, even  those with  an  income of less than $2 a day,   cannot compete with these subsidized export crops.  Learn why. (Download a copy of Powerpoint B -11mb - Windows Media File -wmv)