To help with the food shortage in Haiti, how should agricultural assistance programs shift their focus?
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In Haiti, as export crop production has deteriorated and the population continues to expand, particularly into urban centres, ‘the marketing system of food has become the backbone of this poor nation, and of paramount importance for its survival’ (Girault, 1984, p. 177). Essential foodcrops such as corn, sorghum, cassava and beans are almost exclusively the product of a peasantry that continues to encompass the overwhelming majority of the country’s producers and that is ‘squarely planted in a cash economy’ (Murray and Alvarez, 1973, p. 15).
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Agricultural assistance programs should focus on helping poor nations like Haiti replenish their soil so that Haitians can produce enough crops to feed themselves and be more self-sustaining. Right now, these programs focus more on keeping tariffs low and growing crops in nations that export food to the poorer nations.
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