How U.S. Biofuel Policy Is Destroying Guatemala's Food Supply

From ThinkProgress Mon Jan 7 2013, 21:04:44

A new report in The New York Times highlights how biofuel policy in the United States and Europe has produced a rolling food catastrophe in Guatemala. The country once enjoyed a nearly self-sufficient level of corn production, but domestic producers were undercut by American corn exports subsidized by U.S. agricultural policy. Guatemala's domestic corn supplies [...]

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