date:Aug 11, 2016
ectionism on essential crops such as tobacco, cotton, corn and rice. Since the 1950s, the IMF and World Bank mandated that African governments liberalize their economies with Structural Adjustment Policies in order to qualify for loans. As a result, many of these countries can neither afford to subsidize their own farmers, nor can they put import duties on foreign produce. In other words, they simply do not stand a chance on the global marketplace.
One might reasonably argue that President Obam