The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
25 June 2008
One way some European countries curtailed redundant crop yields or grain mountains, used to be a form of subsidy called set-aside payment. Grain mountains, and the resulting falling prices, were avoided by paying farmers to lay part of their lands, about 8% of their holdings, idle. By all accounts it worked well for the farmers of those countries for decades. A host of poor nations could have made ...
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