[governance] Clinton Admits: "Free" Trade is Harmful to 3rd World

[Joey Gray]

Greetings All, Semi-related (by contrast), here is the story of another
Caribbean island's  generations of dependence, hunger, and independence --
Cuba:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGuipXzxPFY   I just learned about
Kitchen Gardeners, which looks like a cool resource
http://kitchengardeners.org/ Joey

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Deirdre Williams <williams.deirdre at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I have been following this discussion with interest, particularly as I
> belong to Saint Lucia, one of the banana producing countries of the Windward
> Islands in the Caribbean.
> This morning I read this article
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8610427.stm which may interest some of
> you. It also deals with the protection of local agriculture, in this case in
> some African countries, and in this case using intellectual property rights,
> specifically patents.
> Can someone advise me please - Ginger?? - should I copy in the text of the
> article or is the URL sufficient?
> Deirdre
>
> On 8 April 2010 22:19, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
> salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jeanette,
>>
>> Your practical question reminds of something I may have read somewhere
>> but can't for the life of me remember, it's about how consumers in the
>> West post Copenhagen discussions are into buying green produce and
>> chances are if they are consuming something that took so long to get
>> to their country, it would have have not been environmentally
>> efficient and consumers would soon rather purchase commodity from
>> neighbouring region.
>>
>> I am reminded of bottled water how I watched a documentary (rerun)
>> where it said that it takes 8 litres of water to make one bottled
>> water etc and how people should just use filters and drink tap water.
>>
>> Where do we draw the line and how do we trade efficiently and be
>> mindful of not trampling on others just because we are giants and we
>> can.
>>
>> I have chillie growing in my yard in Suva, Fiji Islands and would love
>> to send you some but quarrantine probably won't allow it.  In Fiji,
>> people also dry chillies to preserve them.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Sala
>> On 4/6/10, Jeanette Hofmann <jeanette at wzb.eu> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >> So here's a practical question: Looking in my own refrigerator just
>> now,
>> >> I have noticed most of a pack of chillies (cost £0.50) from Morocco,
>> >> expiry date 22Mar and they have indeed grown some interesting looking
>> >> mold. But I can't eat chillies quickly enough. So what should I do -
>> not
>> >> buy them again (smaller packets not available in that shop),
>> >
>> > You should freeze them. That way they last for many months without
>> > losing their flavour. You defrost them within less than a minute by
>> > putting them under hot water.
>> >
>> > and who
>> >> should public policy seek to protect - Moroccan farmers, or Moroccan
>> >> consumers - in the event that the UK market for chillies reduces,
>> taking
>> >> with it the wholesale price.
>> >
>> > Aren't Moroccan farmers also consumers? I wonder if this is really an
>> > either/ or situation. Besides, there might be good reasons to produce
>> > and buy food locally even if this implies higher prices. Avoiding long
>> > distant transport, might be one, desirable qualities such as taste or
>> > organic production methods might be reasons and poverty is certainly
>> > also one.
>> >
>> > jeanette
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>>
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