Looking for an original research article about food dumping in third
world countries.  Need this by 4/20/03

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 18 Apr 2003 19:00 PDT

Hi! Do you need a specific article or any article we find will do?

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Request for Question Clarification by aceresearcher-ga on 18 Apr 2003 20:07 PDT

Greetings, cinny! 
 
Most such research articles are original works, written by the
author(s) named on their cover or first page. Can you give us a better
idea of what characteristics would qualify an article as "original"?
 
Thanks, 
 
aceresearcher

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Clarification of Question by cinny-ga on 19 Apr 2003 09:24 PDT

I will answer both questions posed.  I am looking for one original
research paper that identifies a study done on the effectiveness of
food dumping in Third World countries.  Specifically one where there
is a hypothesis, analysis, method studied identified and some
conclusion.  Secondly, I could use an article that is more basic, one
that just described food dumping. This could be an article that poses
no real opinion or one that focuses on some countries experience but
one that is relatively basic.  For example, I was thinking that I
might find the latter a article in some governmental agency but as yet
no clear definition of food dumping has surfaced.  Both types of
articles needed may be only found in governmental type work.  Thank
you, Cinny

Duplicate question. Please remove this so you won't be charged twice. :)

Dumping goods in another country is unethical and increases prices in
the long run, but it may be justifiable where people are starving. In
worst case scenarios the local farmers make so little profit they lose
their farms to lenders and/or have insufficient seed for the next
crop. This can make the country even more dependent on food imports.
It seems a shame that in 10,000 years we have not learned to optimize
food production and distribution.   Neil