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Why is it that luxury vegetables from Africa are on sale in supermarkets in the UK, when the media lead us to believe that there is chronic hunger in their country of origin? Why do LDCs export foodstuffs, when their own citizens are short of food? Why would a country facing starvation sell cash crops to industrialised countries? Why are some peasant farmers forced off the land in LDCs, while cereals which they could have grown themselves are imported? The majority of families in a Kenyan town do not have running water in their houses. In the distance they can see sprinklers watering fields of flowers to be sent to Europe for Mother’s Day. What is going on?
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© 1998 Gareth Rees and Charles Smith
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Rees, G., Smith, C. (1998). Feeding the World. In: Economic Development. Economics Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14689-5_5
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