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INFORME ALTERNATIVO SOBRE LA SALUD EN AMERICA LATINAConclusionsFar from nourishing the poor of the world, agrobiotechnologyemerges as an activity designed to incrementthe profit of large transnational biotechnologicalcorporations, through the processing, distribution,and selling of foods, and through other companiesinvolved in the nourishing chain.The aggressive expansion of agro-biotechnologyhas been facilitated due to the pressure exercised bythe Government of the United States, with the intentionthat countries adopt laws on intellectual property,investments, and sign free trade treaties, which complywith the interests of their companies. All this is performedwith the aid of the impositions of the InternationalMonetary Fund and the World Bank, which compelus to use our best lands in exportation cultures,and to import foods from these transnational corporations.Independently of who produces commodities,such as transgenic soy, it is only a handful of companiesthat profit from this. Producer countries are left withtheir lands destroyed and contaminated, and its socialtexture shattered.The defense of nourishing sovereignty is an unavoidableresponsibility to confront this aggression. Tothink first in local and national production, in the satisfactionof our nourishing and cultural necessities, withthe use of a technology we may control, are some ofthe indispensable elements to achieve this objective.174