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

Fri Apr 30 06:33:36 EDT 2010

You're welcome, Salanieta. By the way, the original Washington Post article
Michael forwarded has either been moved or may no longer be available.

Here's a link to the entire hearing - 160 min. of Bills Clinton & Gates
testifying March 10, 2010 to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
about "Building on Success: New Directions in Global Health." I didn't find
the apology to Haiti yet. If someone does, send us the time log for that
part, okay? http://foreign.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/20100310_2/ From the
parts I watched so far, this is a breathtakingly expansive discussion worth
listening to in full.

Joey

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro <
salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you Joey. I enjoyed watching this clip. We also have food
> security issues in Asia Pacific - with "rice shortages" and have to
> deal with balancing food imports.
>
> On 4/18/10, Joey Gray <jogray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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> William
> >> Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize Economics, 1979
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