Food for thought for the Garden list!
BTW folks, January is National Mailorder Gardening Month. Check out the info in post #5 about Seed Savers Exchange. I was flipping through their catalog this weekend and the more I look at it, in comparison to other catalogs I get, Seed Savers has some of the best prices for seeds around, plus they have the added benefit of being heirlooms, so you can save the seeds from your harvest for planting next year -— extremely economic in the long run.
For more than 30 years, Carol Thompson has been consulting on international agriculture trade issues, spending months or years at a time living in Southern African countries studying agricultural expertise and working to "expose constraining trade agreements imposed upon African farmers."The only constraints on African farmers are imposed by their own local governments. Exporting food is not a good idea for most of Africa. Thanks Gabz.