Plantar subsídios

A OCDE publicou ontem um estudo sobre a agricultura (Agricultural Policies in OECD Countries: Monitoring and Evaluation 2005), onde analisa as ajudas estatais à agricultura.
Sobre esse tema e este relatório, a The Economist publicou uma notícia (leitura recomendada), onde se pode ler:

(...)agricultural policies in rich countries still distort markets at home and abroad. Worse, they hurt the poor. Price-support mechanisms make domestic consumers pay more for their food, hitting low-income families the hardest. And for farmers in poor countries, OECD agricultural policies are disastrous. If those farmers aren’t being kept out of export markets by quotas or tariffs, they are being undercut in domestic markets by heavily subsidised produce from the developed world. While some have argued that rich-world subsidies are a net boon to poor countries because they provide cheap food to the masses, in those countries the poorest are often rural farmers, whose lives would be improved by higher prices for their products.

(...)the EU’s common agricultural policy (CAP) accounts for nearly half of its overall budget, even though only 4% of its population still works the land.

Será que isto será explicado por Bob Geldof durante o Live 8?