Who In The World Is Rich? 3rd July 2008 with Chris Rose, Jocelyn Jones & Tom Lines

[Louis Loizou]

An interesting combination of views. Jocelyn had just returned from attending the smallholder farmers' Youth Forum at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-IfeI which was a great success as many young people were inspired by rather than depressed by the prospect of the future of smallholder farming - an activity normally associated with poverty. Tom Lines, who is about to publish his book "Making Poverty - A History", was able to add the depth of both his knowledge and unassuming humanity to what could be viewed as a very depressing story of rising food prices, oil, and the capitalist system which allows huge corporations to produce biofuels for cars and aeroplanes rather than food for humans and does not regulate speculation on the basic stuff of life by commodities brokers. Chris Rose brought a different perspective as an educator and researcher, and although poverty is and will continue to be a factor that plagues the disadvantaged nations at every level from food and water to health and opportunity for work and the supporting of family life he pointed the way, along with Jocelyn & Tom, to those of us who have, in highlighting the richness of working with people in an environment which educates, empowers and opens up creative possibilities. In a way that I do not wish to pre-empt there is a clue to part of the question "What Is Human Work".
www.tomlines.org.uk

To be published in July 2008: /Making Poverty: A History/.
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