Blog #3

West African Villagers Stake Their Fortunes on the Future Price of Rice
By Lydia Polgreen

In Senegal the prices of rice and other crops are rising. Local farmers are worried that their crop that they doubled the production of in the last year will not have the great outcome that they had expected. Global farming has not had a good outcome which is what started the worries. Senegal in the previous year had to stop their exports of crops because they didn’t have enough for their own country. This caused riots over the poor nations across the world. There is a good outcome to this though; the farmers in Africa could now make their crops competitive as well. In the end the price of the farming materials was too high and farmers were not able to make their dreams of being rich come true. This culture is very different from ours. We do not depend on our crops to supply the needs for our country. I think it is interesting that we have different cultures still with how close we have gotten with people around the world though something that seems so simple, the internet.

Polgreen, Lydia. "West African Villagers Stake Their Fortunes on the Future Price of Rice." New York Times 25 Jan 2009 1-2. 8 Feb 2009 .