Lunch Today....Lucky Me......

OK so its Peru and Bolivia......

Evo Morales is not supposed to be allowing that in his country as a socialist.

Peru is a notorious offender against its own people..but since that japanese criminal president Alberto Fujimori , things have steadily improved in Peru politics although a long road still needs to be traversed

as I said the economics/politics of protecting the local food supply while still proffitting greatly from forrin sales is simple.

Maps.....here's a simple example

my family were rice farmers....and along with selling the rice and making a decent living, we also supplied the whole family with affordable rice to cook for the whole season until the next crop

when Burnham closed down all of the localvillage rice mills, we had to sell the paddy to the rice marketing board at price set by the government......and could hardly afford to buy the rice sold back to us after they processed it

the gov't exported the rest and made big profits >
it was the death-knell of the rice industry in guyana.  my famo got out of it very quickly after that.

i am now off to.....lunch'n'learn!!

and i bet there will be no quinoa or rice!

yes..I know that's what they do.  but that's a sooprise in Bolivia.  I will be digging more into it soon.

Peru is a different matter.  I would the Peruvians doing what Burnham did. but there are many variations on that theme..lots of ways they can manipuate to rise price and profit off the people

and as I said the opposite..a profitable industry for the locals is just as simple. it all depends on the honesty and nationalist comitment of the government

but I am not a fan of government as you all know.  they people can do much better without government or just a minimal administrative set up and no competing powerful bodies lined up against the people like corporations

keep digging you may come up in Mugabe house

not so deep captain..ansers like this lies near to the top



www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/world/americas/20bolivia.html?_r=0



By SIMON ROMERO and SARA SHAHRIARI

Published: March 19, 2011

LA PAZ, Bolivia — When NASA scientists were searching decades ago for an ideal food for long-term human space missions, they came across an Andean plant called quinoa. With an exceptional balance of amino acids, quinoa, they declared, is virtually unrivaled in the plant or animal kingdom for its life-sustaining nutrients.

But while Bolivians have lived off it for centuries, quinoa remained little more than a curiosity outside the Andes for years, found in health food shops and studied by researchers — until recently.

Now demand for quinoa (pronounced KEE-no-ah) is soaring in rich countries, as American and European consumers discover the “lost crop” of the Incas. The surge has helped raise farmers’ incomes here in one of the hemisphere’s poorest countries. But there has been a notable trade-off: Fewer Bolivians can now afford it, hastening their embrace of cheaper, processed foods and raising fears of malnutrition in a country that has long struggled with it.