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...food aid into a poor economy hurts local farmers by depressing prices, even in an emergency. That makes it even harder for millions of small farmers to buy the high-priced fertilizer or fuel they need to compete. "The backbone of world agriculture is small farmers," says Joaquim von Braun, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington. "We will only grow out of the food crisis if these people have access to markets...
...plants to produce them. Why didn't Perry look a little deeper into what Sasol is doing to reduce its carbon footprint instead of just bad-mouthing its efforts? It is public knowledge that Sasol is devoting considerable resources and funds to develop new and noncarbon energy solutions. Max Braun, SOMERSET, SOUTH AFRICA
...getting crops to market consist mainly of rutted dirt roads; irrigation systems are in a shambles; and there's little access to credit for poor farmers. Aid agencies are starting some programs virtually from scratch. "There are very few plans to take off the shelf," says Joachim von Braun, director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington...
...worth the gain,” he said. “Boloco and Qdoba just don’t cut it.” Some came prepared to wait. Erin R. Gilmour brought a copy of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility with her. Charlotte Braun, standing next to Gilmour at the very end of the line, had brought the free magazine Stuff @ Night to keep her company. Others could not be persuaded to wait in the long line. One man, who identified himself only as “Brian,” upon hearing that the wait...
...sending crates of fresh-cut South African gladiolas into the United Arab Emirates - Bout realized it was wasteful flying into Africa with empty planes. According to Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes and the Man Who Makes War Possible, a book on Bout written by Douglas Farah and Stephen Braun last year, Bout began to fill his Africa-bound aircraft with stockpiles of Soviet weapons to sell to some of Africa's most notorious regimes and rebel groups. As his business expanded, Bout found himself selling weapons on both sides of the conflicts. In the 1990s, according to Farah...