Photo by Brendan Hoffman hoffmanbrendan / Men unload bags of American rice from a truck in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. While Haiti was once self-sufficient in rice production, starting in the 1980s, cheap and heavily subsidized imported rice, particularly from America (known as “Miami rice”), put many Haitian rice farmers out of business. Follow me hoffmanbrendan for more human stories from around the world.
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