Red

The Independent has turned RED today, half of all revenues will go to fight AIDS in Africa. The whole issue is edited by Bono and it is worthwhile giving it a glimpse. The article on the way EU subsidies affect the world trade and impact on the economies in Africa is especially revealing. African exports have been smashed by an unfair world trade - they cannot compete with the prices of EU countries made possible by the subsidies. Not even in their own countries, where “European countries dump thousands of tons of subsidized exports every year so that local producers cannot even compete on a level playing field in their own land”.

Take sugar, for example: Farmers in Europe are guaranteed a price for their sugar which is three times higher than the world price. Mozambique loses more than £70m a year - equivalent to its entire national budget for agriculture and rural development - because of the trade distortions.

Should make us think about the flip side of Eurocentric policies and the huge numbers of those who suffer because of a "full-mouth word" - inequity. Should make us think of how every move made might have unexpected repercussions.