Message-ID: <9502217958.AA795834670@hudsmtphq.hud.gov> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 17:11:10 EST From: mailto:Althea_M._Forrester@HUD.GOV> Subject: cc:Mail SMTPLINK 2.0 Undeliverable Message To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
>For example, just when Guyana's rice industry is crawling back from the
>period of terrible non-market interventions by the Burnham
>government, its prospects for rice exports to the Caribbean
>have been dealt a setback because of the US decision to
>subsidize the export of (already subsidized) U.S. rice to
>Jamaica. The reason, of course, is to keep food prices low
>in Jamaica so that the poor will not riot. The consequence
>is to hammer Guyana's prospects for "letting the market
>work" and blocking exports of Guyana rice to another
>Caribbean country.
As a interested reader from Jamaica with many relatives (some farmers) still on the island I readily agree and have seen the effect, not only in the rice industry but other industries as well. Finally, perspective from one who has been there.
>The posting on Hunger in Africa has a number of assertions, hypothesis,
>and analytical frameworks within it. Anyone familiar with
>the "Food First" body of work would not be surprised by
>what it says. That does not mean that it is heavily wrong
>or heavily write. It should be food for thought and a basis
>for a more measured response than a semi-anonymous posting
>from the U.S. State Department saying my Politically
>Correct opinion is better than your Political- ly incorrect
>opinion. At least that is how I see it from my PC Pentium
>opinion.
Sam Lanfranco < mailto:lanfran@vm1.yorku.ca >
As an interested party watching the debate I am so happy to hear from a true voice of reason, someone who understands that nothing is black and white and understands the political influences which affect market competition.