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...care for parents when they grow old. Girls, on the other hand, leave their parents' home for their husband's clan when they marry. In China's poorest villages, fathers don't even count their daughters when asked how many children they have. "Two strong sons," says a millet farmer surnamed Yang when asked about his family. As an afterthought, he adds: "Two donkeys. A pig. And one daughter...
...tree, tossing scraps of vegetables as makeshift toys. The noise is the raucous glee of boys being boys. There is only one girl playing among them. Seven-year-old Xiaochun is astonished when asked what he thinks his future will hold. "I'll get married and be a good farmer of course," he says. Where will he get a wife? After all, there's only one girl among his playmates. Xiaochun furrows his brow and considers the question. "I think in other villages far away, there are many more girls," he says. "I will get my wife from there." Across...
...says, sitting next to her friend Margaret Wajeru, who is shelling peas. "Sometimes you can't get tomatoes, so we are going to sell them for more. Or everyone has potatoes, so you have to cut your price a lot. Prices go up and down just like that." Farmers hate price fluctuations. It makes it hard to plan ahead. But most farmers in the developing world have little choice: like Njeri, they sell at the price the market sets. Farmers in Europe, the U.S. and Japan are luckier: they receive massive government subsidies in the form of guaranteed prices...
...Farmer also gave his personal thanks to the Harvard community. Several Haitian patients transported to Boston by PIH have resided in Eliot House while undergoing treatment, where Farmer is a visiting scholar...
...thrilled that the college and the senior class is making this a priority, because you guys are going to be the decision makers,” Farmer said...