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Old 18-07-2003, 04:18 PM
Michael Saunby
 
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Default Sustainability in 3rd world agriculture


"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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Oz writes


The sad thing is not just that it is completely denigrating of women -
they sit there for hours stringing tiny beads onto fishing line and

just
about go crazy, and then they will just loose their money- but that it
has consequences for whole families and communities. People here only
take loans from within their family or maybe from neighbours. What
happens when the money goes missing and people can't pay their family
members back? What happens when people start to blame their friends

and
neighbours who told them how wonderful the scheme was? This scheme is
not just thievery but a community destroyer creating anger and
destroying trust.


didn't something very similar happen in Albania not long after that
overthrew the communists?

and wasn't there something that took off in the SW of England over some

sort
of culture in milk?


And of course those weird American folk had that Enron thing.

Michael Saunby