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Cancel the planned USDA dumping of US peanuts on the Haitian market and future surplus dumping there - procure locally

Created by H.F. on April 01, 2016

The US government subsidizes American agribusiness by purchasing excess production to keep prices high. Some of this production is then sold or donated overseas. In large markets, especially those that do not produce that crop, this may have no effect on the local market and even be beneficial. When it is done in small, poor countries, especially if they also produce that crop, the effect is to lower local prices, increasing poverty. In Haiti this has happened repeatedly over the past two decades, in particular with the world food program and other UN agencies. It's time to stop making poverty worse - the best way to help a country like Haiti is to procure locally, from Haitian farmers. You can see some of them and their peanuts here: https://www.flickr.com/gp/140776392@N06/ja1057

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