Darfur Withers as Sudan Sells a Food Bonanza

posted by Dustin

An excellent article that to me implies that petrodollar recycling is having an impact on the development of agriculture, and consequently famine, in Sudan. Wheat to Saudi Arabia? Vine ripened tomatoes for the Jordanian Army? Time to rethink the food aid/export earnings paradigm.

from nyt...
August 10, 2008

The Food Chain

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

ED DAMER, Sudan — Even as it receives a billion pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growing and selling vast quantities of its own crops to other countries, capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.

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