1. Jack Wilkinson, an agriculture advocate, says the world should be reacting to drought and famine, not with food aid, but by giving locals the means to farm better and more efficiently. This is a classic example of the saying "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
2. I never realized that western farmers did not have a choice of who to sell there crops to.
3. Why is it that farmers don't want the wheat board to be dismantled? Why do they not want more freedom to sell to who they want to? Is having the wheat board just more convenient for them?
Has there ever been any problems between the farmers and the wheat board having to do with price of crops? When the farmers have to sell to the wheat board, what stops the wheat board from just saying they'll only buy crops for a really low price?
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