KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Export restrictions and higher taxes in neighbouring countries are worsening an already dire food crisis in Afghanistan.Rick Corsino, the World Food Program's director in Afghanistan, said international response to a recent appeal for aid was impressive, but in a global food emergency, donations don't go as far as they usually do.The branch of the program strives to buy food at reasonable prices in the region, but other nations in south-central Asia have their own food issues to deal with. Pakistan is expected to see its own wheat production drop this year. "In a way, it's understandable. They are reluctant to export when they already expect to have their own shortfall," Corsino said from Kabul. "This means it's taking more time to get the food here, which is a worry."
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Export restrictions and higher taxes in neighbouring countries are worsening an already dire food crisis in Afghanistan.
Rick Corsino, the World Food Program's director in Afghanistan, said international response to a recent appeal for aid was impressive, but in a global food emergency, donations don't go as far as they usually do.
The branch of the program strives to buy food at reasonable prices in the region, but other nations in south-central Asia have their own food issues to deal with. Pakistan is expected to see its own wheat production drop this year. "In a way, it's understandable. They are reluctant to export when they already expect to have their own shortfall," Corsino said from Kabul. "This means it's taking more time to get the food here, which is a worry."
I know, Iknow, I'm just a DFH. Too flippin' radical when there are villages to be bombed and crops to be burnt. keep to the Fen Causeway
I know, how about repairing the thousands of years old irrigation systems you bombed to shit back in 2002 so their own farmland can be productive again.
Where's the fun in that?
might as well get started on building it a whole new generation of targets, especially in areas where they've already removed the ability to shoot back. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Also, what is the difference in price now between opium and wheat? I'm guessing it's still massive, but, you know. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
U.S. Drug Policy Pushes Heroin: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
This drug, until recently, was cocaine. A Horse of the Same Color Sadly, this is no longer true. The South American drug cartels have discovered that growing opium poppies and refining their gum into heroin yields ten to twenty times more profit per unit shipped than cocaine. Peasants can annually earn $500 for one hectare of subsistence crop, $1,500 for coca, and $4,500 for opium poppies. Distributors can sell cocaine for perhaps $15,000 per kilo, but heroin brings $150,000 or more. Consequently, shipments of South American heroin to the United States are increasing at an alarming rate.
