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Family Farmers Worse off Despite High Prices
By The Real News Network
Tim A. Wise: Family farmers caught in the middle between corporate monopolies
TRNN interviews Timothy A. Wise, Research Director of the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, and leads its Globalization and Sustainable Development Program.
Since late 2006, crop prices have risen dramatically, reversing a decades-long trend that saw persistent declines in agricultural commodities prices. But are small-to-mid-scale family farmers really benefiting from the boom? No, according to the latest of three studies by Timothy A. Wise, who has looked behind the glowing headlines on the farm sector as a whole to examine how family farmers have fared in this high-price environment.
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