14 May 2008

Roots of Haiti's food crisis run deep


Subsidized U.S. rice began flooding in 30 years ago, so cheap that Haitians began eating it instead of the corn, sweet potatoes, cassava and domestic rice that had sprouted from plains and mountainsides from the colonial era to the late 1980s.

Channel: Food Tags: haiti subsidized food

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