It seems that US farm policy gives the short end of the stick to poor and disenfranchised people in both the U.S. and the world. Today, Oxfam released a study that shows that if the U.S. cut the billions it gives in cotton subsidies to a handful of farmers, millions of poor farmers in the cotton-producing regions of West Africa would see a boost to their incomes.
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US Farm Policy Disadvantages Poor And Disenfranchised
By Carol Welch, UN Millennium Campaign US and Canada Thursday June 21, 2007
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