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a growing scale global trade doesn t always make sense. in today s world goods and services are traded between countries and continents on an unprecedented scale as globalization is credited with boosting economic growth free trade is a big honor for the corporations and benefits millions of people around the world but the price for that prosperity say critics is paid by the poor and nowhere is that goal more visible than in africa. 54 percent of the continent s workforce relies on the agricultural sector but cheap and often subsidized goods brought in from asia and europe are swamping domestic markets causing prices to plummet. over 120000 tons of tomato products enter ghana annually that s a $95.00 fold increase since imports began in 1996 and that boom is taking its toll on local producers. tomatoes they could be goners red to gold the soil is ideal and they ve been cultivated in the country for decades yet ghana s tomato factories now stand empty and farmers are opt ....

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