ISS - Southern rice and Haitian hunger

ISS - Southern rice and Haitian hunger
Southern rice and Haitian hunger
As in so many countries throughout the world, an important staple of the Haitian diet is rice, first brought by slaves from West Africa and cultivated on the Caribbean island nation for hundreds of years.
Until the mid-1980s, Haiti produced enough rice for domestic consumption -- but that changed after U.S. President Bill Clinton took office.