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With cheap food imports, Haiti can’t feed itself (AP)

March 20th, 2010

Maria Carmelle Jean, center, sells rice and dry products at a downtown street market in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, March 20, 2010. Decades of cheap imports, especially rice from the U.S., punctuated with abundant aid in various crises, have destroyed local agriculture and left impoverished countries such as Haiti unable to feed themselves. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)AP - The earthquake not only smashed markets, collapsed warehouses and left more than 2.5 million people without enough to eat. It may also have shaken up the way the…

Chile survivors forced to protect, feed themselves after quake (AP)

March 3rd, 2010

Men guard their street from looters in Concepcion, Chile, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, Feb. 27. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - One man swings a thick metal chain. Another grips an ax. An older gentleman favors a wooden pole. And a 20-year-old spoiling for a fight has prepared a…

Chileans protect, feed themselves after quake (AP)

March 3rd, 2010

Men guard their street from looters in Concepcion, Chile, Tuesday, March 2, 2010. The government sent soldiers and ordered a nighttime curfew to quell looting after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile early Saturday, Feb. 27. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - One man swings a thick metal chain. Another grips an ax. An older gentleman favors a wooden pole. And a 20-year-old spoiling for a fight has prepared a…