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Haiti's pig farms

How attempts to modernise agriculture ended up decimating the Haitian pig farming industry

How attempts to modernise agriculture ended up decimating the Haitian pig farming industry. The fiasco over pigs imported from the US ended up contributing to the downfall of the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. The presenter is in Haiti with a local agronomist and an aid agency worker to examine the state of Haitian farming, where pigs still represent wealth and hope for the future.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

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