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===Impact on access to food===
A number of [[civil society]] organisations<ref>Oxfam, [https://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/debt_aid/downloads/bp29_death.pdf Death on the Doorstep of the Summit] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107192935/https://www.oxfam.org.uk/resources/policy/debt_aid/downloads/bp29_death.pdf |date=7 January 2012 }}, August 2002.</ref> have criticised the IMF's policies for their impact on access to food, particularly in developing countries. In October 2008, former United States president [[Bill Clinton]] delivered a speech to the United Nations on [[World Food Day]], criticising the World Bank and IMF for their policies on food and agriculture:

{{blockquote|We need the World Bank, the IMF, all the big foundations, and all the governments to admit that, for 30 years, we all blew it, including me when I was president. We were wrong to believe that food was like some other product in international trade, and we all have to go back to a more responsible and [[sustainable agriculture|sustainable form of agriculture]]. |Former U.S. president Bill Clinton|Speech at United Nations World Food Day, October 16, 2008<ref>Bill Clinton, [http://www.clintonfoundation.org/news/news-media/speech-united-nations-world-food-day "Speech: United Nations World Food Day"] {{webarchive |url=https://archive.today/20110605130326/http://www.clintonfoundation.org/news/news-media/speech-united-nations-world-food-day |date=5 June 2011 }}, 13 October 2008</ref>}}

The [[FPIF]] remarked that there is a recurring pattern: "the destabilization of peasant producers by a one-two punch of IMF-[[World Bank]] structural adjustment programs that gutted government investment in the countryside followed by the massive influx of subsidized U.S. and European Union agricultural imports after the [[WTO]]'s Agreement on Agriculture pried open markets."<ref name="Foreign Policy In Focus 2008">{{cite web |title=Destroying African Agriculture |website=Foreign Policy In Focus |date=3 June 2008 |url=https://fpif.org/destroying_african_agriculture/ |access-date=22 August 2018 |quote=At the time of decolonization in the 1960s, Africa was not just self-sufficient in food but was actually a net food exporter, its exports averaging 1.3 million tons a year between 1966-70. Today, the continent imports 25% of its food, with almost every country being a net food importer. |archive-date=22 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180822145829/https://fpif.org/destroying_african_agriculture/ |url-status=live }}</ref>