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It's The Stupid Politics.(Special Report)(food crisis)
Byline: George Wehrfritz And Stefan Theil; With Rod Nordland In Rome, Akiko Kashiwagi In Tokyo And Chris Yabes In Negros
The world's poor are paying the price for years of bad government policy in agriculture.
Japan doesn't need any of the rice it buys abroad, and its leaders don't want it. In fact, Japanese farmers harvested a big surplus in 2007, and the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party attempted for decades to shield traditional growers from outside competition. The rice imports are typically warehoused for years and eventually sold to make crackers or miso, sent abroad as food aid or, increasingly, fed to chickens, pigs or cattle. Japan is a big ...
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