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...some years ago made clear, a sudden removal of trees can cause complete deterioration of agricultural land More alarmingly. Duncan Poore, a researcher at Oxford, has pointed out that loss of a large food sustaining area through such deterioration is "an important cause of political unrest and instability." Shrinking farmland area results in food shortages, and the declining number of trees makes the cost of wood skyrocket. In some areas of Africa, the price of fuel wood used to cook a meal actually exceeds the cost of the food...
Meanwhile, the minuscule economic elite of El Salvador is doing very well, living off the export of coffee, sugar cane, and cotton. Two per cent of the country owns over 60 per cent of the farmland, and 5 per cent of the people receive 50 per cent of the income. A corporation president in El Salvador recently told the truth: "It is a class war," he said. It does not take Fidel Castro to tell people they are being repressed, starved, taken away in the middle of the night, and shot down in the streets. A revolution was coming...
Between 1959 and 1969, Derold Happel and his wife Brenda rented up to 300 acres of fertile farmland in Iowa's Benton County, northeast of Des Moines. They longed for land of their own, but they had no assets they could mortgage to get a big enough loan from local banks. A friend told Happel about the Farmers Home Administration. He borrowed $60,000 for 40 years at 5% from FHA and bought 120 acres of prime land with the cash. Today he owns 275 acres, rents 500 and farms 425 more for an absentee owner. Without FHA, Happel...
...Army Corps of Engineers has estimated the current flood losses in the flat farmland of the Red River Valley at more than $26 million...
Yadkin County is tough and poor. The old farmhouses are quaint and a bit depressing. A few years ago the drive through the county was probably lovely. The winding country roads, however, are now marred by small suburban houses. Mobile homes clutter the farmland, sheltering farmers' married children who can't afford a house of their own, or old people who can't pay to repair the dilapidated houses their fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers lived...