In a detailed Confidential exclusive report for Colombia, packaging technologist Aurelio Suárez, an expert in economics and former candidate for mayor of Bogotá, packaging technologist makes an analysis of the situation of Colombian agriculture. This paper develops a model counting the multinational agribusiness Cargill places around the world and how the government of Juan Manuel Santos, according to the analyst, wants to apply in Colombia.
"The real threat to long-term prosperity of Cargill, says Greg Page, is that forces beyond the control of the company go against their freedom to operate in the markets" [1]
It is known that agricultural production comes from many producers and that the bulk crops out at the same time. By contrast, demand is permanent, is consumed every day, and concentrated, as most consumers are in cities. By this contradiction farmer direct sale to the ultimate purchaser is almost impossible. Hence the intervention of intermediaries agglomerate and stored and, in many cases, process and to reach the counter, packaging technologist the retail sale. These intermediaries will ultimately define the prices packaging technologist and, even more, when they have a dominant position as a monopoly or oligopoly.
With the development of trade in agricultural genres intermediaries have also evolved, today called agribusiness. Face-face exchange, passed large-scale trade and hence the futures contract transactions in stock exchanges and speculative derivatives that support them. Between 2006 and 2010, for example, packaging technologist a hundred coffee trading just nine became packaging technologist physical delivery of grain. The rest was "a pyramid". The global company has managed to evolve, and even mark the path of evolution, is Cargill, which since its founding as a trader from 1865-2013 - "is not part of the food chain. It's the food chain, "said Dan Basse expert. [2]
Cargill operates in 67 countries with 142,000 employees. Your customers are in North America packaging technologist -37% -, 23% in Asia and 18% in Europe. [3] is a company almost familiar, packaging technologist since more than 80% of its shares packaging technologist belong to Cargill-MacMillan clan, and has reached the top due to its "mutant" as described by Brewster Kneen in the book, Giant invisible. According to Kneen, this mutation has been implicated impose models of production and operation strategies packaging technologist that will favor their interests and profits, not infrequently with support from local and federal governments in the United States and Canada, and others, including mentions Mexico, China, Lithuania and Brazil. This does not include direct and indirect subsidies and contracts from the Department of Agriculture in North America, as well as construction, behest, public infrastructure, roads, railways and waterways, packaging technologist ports, silos and grain elevators, which also uses.
As agribusiness, broker, transporter, gatherer, processor and marketer, has dabbled in all cereals, oilseeds, cotton, citrus, meat, malt, eggs, peanuts, cocoa, sugar, biofuel, fertilizer, seeds, ingredients for industrial processing, salt and energy and metals business. In the end, Cargill is a "food provider, banker, cattle buyer over, butcher, wholesaler (...) that gives the company maximum control and causes greater risks, climate and animal health-fall on the shoulders of others. "[4]
This "giant", which also claims the mission to "feed the world", and counts with 1,862 patents in processed food applications packaging technologist [5], has set the task of doubling its revenue every 5 to 7 years, succeeding handsomely. Indeed, in 2001 had revenues of 49 billion 400 million [6] and in 2013, for the second half, said 136 000 700 000 000 [7], resulting in profits in 60 of its 69 business units. [8 ] It was reported despite a fall of 88% of your net income at the end of November 2012, in respect of 4000 profits to $ 240 million in May 2011, which exceeded the 3000 record of 950 million packaging technologist 2007-2008 period. [9]
Speaking of that period, June 2006 to 2008, where it occurred packaging technologist as rising food prices globally, the organization Food and Water Watch says that "Cargill Financial Services served as a platform for speculative investors spec up the prices of food and other commodities ". [10] In fact, Cargill earnings come in recent years, as it was in November 2010, by 40% marketing and 40% of the pa ingredients