This project looks at the paradox of Jamaican agriculture: an abundant supply of fish, fruits and vegetables while farmers struggle to find financial success.
Published October 20, 2011
Brenda Wyss is an economist who has been studying Jamaica and its agriculture sector for three decades. She began her work in Kingston in the early 1980s when trade liberalization was beginning to really hurt Jamaica's farming industries.
In this video she explains the benefits and costs that result when a small nation like Jamaica begins to rely on cheap foreign imports for food.
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Jamaica may be a land of abundance, but its reliance on cheap agricultural imports is driving local farmers out of business.
Nearly a fifth of working Jamaicans are employed in the country's agriculture sector, but farmers are struggling to make ends meet because cheap imported products are driving down local food costs.
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Julia Rendleman grew up in southern Illinois. She graduated with a degree in political science from Loyola University New Orleans in 2002 and lived in New Orleans until 2004. For four years she...
