Why Is Hungry For Profit Agribusiness
Agribusiness is the industrialization and globalization of the farming industry, more often than not it also involves the mechanization of the labor in order to streamline it. At a glance agribusiness may be seen and even portrayed as the solution to the global food issues, but that is far from the truth as we have seen in the documentary film Hungry for Profit agribusiness’ main purpose is profit as in the end agribusiness is in fact a business. With this in mid it should not come as a surprise that agribusiness, despite all the propaganda, isn’t a solution to the world food issues, in fact one can argue it is a cause for some as they choose to sell their product to foreign markets instead of locals ones in order to make more money. One example of this is seen in the Philippians were Del Monte began to set up operations, but in doing so also began to drive out local farmers and take over their land. Unlike some other instances that we saw in their
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Those whose farms have been destroyed or overtaken by the plantation have usually ended up working in the plantations for subpar pay which is barely enough to keep families fed as it cost two days’ pay for an average brazilian to buy a kilo of black beans. Some have managed to stay or obtain land in the wake of an agribusiness founding, but said land is usually poor and unfit for farming without heavy investment, something people working for the plantations do not have as a result of their poor pay. This poor pay exists because it is an incentive for the company to set up shop as low pay allows for greater income and draws business into the
Those whose farms have been destroyed or overtaken by the plantation have usually ended up working in the plantations for subpar pay which is barely enough to keep families fed as it cost two days’ pay for an average brazilian to buy a kilo of black beans. Some have managed to stay or obtain land in the wake of an agribusiness founding, but said land is usually poor and unfit for farming without heavy investment, something people working for the plantations do not have as a result of their poor pay. This poor pay exists because it is an incentive for the company to set up shop as low pay allows for greater income and draws business into the