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Re: LQD: The NAFTA flu (none / 1)

actually in Ireland I believe point (1) was a huge contributor: the best land was reserved for cash-cropping for staples exported to England, iirc. Ireland was operated as a colony of England, with English landlords supervising hacienda agriculture and the indigenous (so to speak) Irish dispossessed and shuffled off onto the worst, most marginal land.

That is what I thought I had said in my point 3. :-)

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Fri May 1st, 2009 at 05:48:33 PM EST
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Re: LQD: The NAFTA flu (4.00 / 5)

sorry I somehow thought it was a choice of 1, 2, or 3... reading in haste. usually the cash-crop scenario involves the works: peasant farmers are displaced from the good lands and forced to work very marginal soils; monocrops encourage epidemic blights and pest population booms; hacienda monocropping reduces soil fertility rendering even "good" lands exhausted and unproductive. and so on.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...

by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Fri May 1st, 2009 at 06:39:08 PM EST
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Re: LQD: The NAFTA flu (4.00 / 2)

And I need to be more clear in my comments. :-)

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Sat May 2nd, 2009 at 01:27:00 AM EST
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LQD: The NAFTA flu | 46 comments (46 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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