Ghana pays price for west's rice subsidies

I once had an email spat with a USAmerican free trader -he just didn't get the fact that the west actually doesn't practice free trade but actually subsidises its farmers while insisting that no such thing can happen with developing nation farmers: 'do as I say not as I do'. And here's the effect:"'The plight of rice farmers in Ghana shows how western policies and unfair agricultural subsidises in the US and the EU are destroying the livelihoods of farmers in developing nations,' "
What this does, of course, is in effect asset strip the developing world in favour of the devloped world: the rich get richer the poor get poorer. And no; I don't think this is what Christ had in mind when he said that to those who have more will be given and to those who don't have, even what little thay have will be taken away. Or at least, I don't think he was endorsing it as a way to conduct economic affairs in the world. The way things are isn't they way the necessarily should be. The question we should be asking ourselves -as Christians who benefit from this unjust system- is how can we make the system work so that it assists the answer to these people's prayer for daily bread rather than resists it.

Get more details on the figures from the article. Respect to Oxfam for highlighting the issue and the Guardian for reporting it.
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