The food companies' strategies

March 30, 2006, Bogotá - Carlos Olaya talks about the connection between starvation and poverty in Colombia and the strategies of national and transnational food companies. Coffee: The monopoly strategy of Nestlé, Cargill, Proctor&Gamble, and Kraft Food lead to a price decline of coffee by about two thirds throughout the 1990s. Due to this price decline about 150,000 coffee-producing families lost their jobs.