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"Food is the most important thing for the people", and soaring food prices are related to the interests of thousands of people in Qian Qian.
From the public interest, rising food prices will increase people's living costs, thus directly affecting the lives of ordinary people; From the macro-economic point of view, under the background of American subprime mortgage crisis and high oil prices, soaring food prices will also increase inflationary pressure in many countries, making the world economy, especially the developing economies, face more uncertainties.
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund 13 Joint Development Committee issued a communique at the end of its spring meeting, saying that the sharp rise in food prices has hit many developing countries. World Bank President Zoellick warned that soaring food prices may lead to poverty of 654.38 billion people in poor countries around the world, and may also turn the poverty reduction achievements made by some countries in the past few years into a turning point.
What is more serious is that while food prices are rising, the world food reserves are decreasing, and the problem of food security is becoming increasingly prominent. According to FAO's estimation, the global grain reserve has fallen to the lowest level since 1980.
During his visit to India on the 9th of this month, FAO Director-General Diouf said that riots occurred in some African countries and Haiti due to food shortage and rising prices. We are really facing a state of emergency.
Analysts pointed out that the rising international food prices have affected the food security of some countries, and only with the concerted efforts of all parties in Qi Xin can we avoid causing a wide range of economic and social problems.
At present, many countries and some international institutions have put forward plans to deal with rising food prices, which can be divided into short-term measures and long-term strategies. In the short term, the World Bank and other international organizations suggest that urgent measures should be taken to increase aid to low-income countries so as to reduce the threat of food shortage to the poor.
The World Bank calls on the international community to increase its assistance to the United Nations World Food Programme by 500 million dollars to meet the urgent needs of people in low-income countries. In addition, the World Bank plans to increase its agricultural aid loans to Africa from $400 million to $800 million in fiscal year 2009. FAO pointed out that in some low-income countries, 50% to 60% of residents' income is used to pay for food expenses, and the soaring food prices are particularly harmful to these countries. FAO calls on developed countries to increase their assistance to help them cope with the current situation.
In addition, some countries have put forward measures such as delaying the development of biofuel industry and reducing food waste to ensure the supply of food and grain.
According to a research report published by the World Bank on the 9th of this month, in the past three years, the global wheat price rose as high as 18 1%, and the overall grain price rose by 83%. The report predicts that food prices will remain high in 2008 and 2009. The report also predicts that most food prices will remain above the 2004 level before 20 15.
Regarding the reasons for the increase in food prices, Jose Guerra Graciano, head of the Latin American region of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, pointed out at the press conference held in Brasilia on June 5438+00 that these reasons included the decrease in output caused by climate change, the change in the relationship between supply and demand in the world food market and the increase in speculation in the agricultural futures market.
Some analysts also pointed out that the high oil price in the international market and the rise of biofuel industry are also important factors leading to the rise of food prices. The rise in oil prices not only pushed up the prices of agricultural products such as fertilizers and pesticides, but also led to the increase of comprehensive agricultural costs such as transportation. The consumption of food and land resources by the emerging biofuel industry is increasing.
Some scholars even think that "the world has entered the era of high food prices".
The world is universally connected, and there is a universal connection between things and the elements of the same thing. The sustained high level of international food prices has led to the reduction of international food reserves, and the problem of feeding poor people in poor countries has become increasingly serious, which is the embodiment of universal contact.
We should look at the problem from the perspective of connection, make clear the stage and position of the development of things, take the development of things as a process as a reference, grasp the relationship between the whole and the part, and grasp the key parts, so as to maximize the overall function and grasp the causal relationship of things. Many countries have taken urgent measures to solve the problem of high food prices, and are looking at this problem from the perspective of materialist dialectics.
Matter determines consciousness, and consciousness reacts on matter. The world is material, material comes first, consciousness comes second, and material is objective. Consciousness is a dynamic reflection of the objective world, and correct consciousness plays a positive role in promoting the development of things. This requires us to proceed from reality and combine subjectivity with objectivity. Many countries have taken urgent measures to solve the problem of high food prices, which reflects this.
Contradictions are both antagonistic and unified. Contradictions are universal and special. The universality of contradiction lies in that everything in the world has contradictions, and the particularity of contradiction lies in that one side of various contradictions has different contradictions. The universality of contradiction lies in particularity, and particularity cannot be separated from universality. Under the guidance of the particularity of contradiction, the problem is observed and analyzed by using contradiction analysis method. The main aspects of contradiction determine the nature of things, so we should grasp the main aspects of contradiction, and the main and secondary aspects of contradiction can be transformed into each other. We should look at the problem in two ways by contradiction analysis.
Give play to the basic role of market resource allocation and strengthen and improve macro-control. Use the market to optimize the allocation of resources, expand China's grain market, cooperate with the use of national macro-control, use fiscal and tax policies to achieve stable economic development, give play to the leverage of tax economic regulation, prevent economic ups and downs, and achieve sound and rapid national economic development.
Improve China's social security system to ensure the poor people's food.
Adhere to the principle of independence and self-reliance, adhere to the strategy of opening to the outside world, and implement the strategy of combining "going out" with "bringing in". Adhere to international competition and cooperation on a larger scale and at a higher level, make full use of both domestic and foreign markets and resources, introduce foreign advanced technology, improve domestic productivity, and make up for the shortage of domestic market resources.
Improve the way of life, establish the consciousness of saving the whole people and advocate "green consumption".