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The perils of free trade in agriculture
20-Sep-2007 Mail & Guardian
It’s the kind of unfair situation that makes poorer nations wonder where the payoff is with free trade: demand for coffee, tea, cocoa, cotton and sugar — which is what many such countries have to offer the world — has risen. Prices paid in the supermarket have risen. Yet the share paid to the farmers who grow these basic agricultural commodities has fallen.
Flab grab
15-Sep-2007 The Guardian
Raj Patel illuminates the failures of the global food system in "Stuffed and Starved"