Word: exportation
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Once you accept this fact, and the fact that much of the globe's arable land is underutilized, the problem of hunger takes on new dimensions. If Mali produced enough peanuts to export them during the 1974 drought in the Sahel, why were peasants there starving? If it is possible to increase productivity on Bangladesh acreage by a factor of 15, why is the country so often described as a basket case whose people are doomed...
...vegetable and don't eat it--and because they could not afford Bud Antle's prices. Despite huge increases in the per capita production of beef in Central America in recent years, per capita consumption of meat has declined as more and more resources are drawn into production for export...
...GOVERNMENTS of the Third World often cooperate whole-heartedly with multinational corporations' efforts to transform their countries' agricultural production: a booming export trade, even if it forces peasants off land that has fed them for centuries, means more well-paid jobs for the educated elite, and increased foreign exchange with which to import luxury goods. Senegal provided all the initial capital for Bud Antle's operation there, and removed villagers from land the company wanted for its plantations. The Brazilian government is clearing the Amazon rain forest to make way for American-owned companies who hope to grow beef...
...philosophy, they represent a return to the broad-brush, stockpiling farm-management policies introduced more than four decades ago. These policies were abandoned by Richard Nixon's aggressive, foot-in-mouth Agriculture Secretary, Earl Butz, a dedicated free marketeer. Butz's emphasis on an all-out export drive for farm products yielded spectacular results, including a threefold increase in the domestic price of wheat-but that was largely the result of bad harvests in China and the Soviet Union. One form of Government intervention that even Butz favored was the "set-aside." It was used from...
Other critics would have preferred that Carter and Bergland concentrated more on export sales. Says Harold Steele of the Illinois Farm Bureau: "This year there was the same amount of wheat on the world market as last year. But our exports dropped to 900 million bu. from over 1.2 billion. The U.S. wheat producer has a less significant share of the market than he had previously...