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Richard Mahapatra
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Managing Editor, Down To Earth
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By Richard Mahapatra| Down To Earth Verified For 60 years until 2019, the US had maintained the agricultural trade balance. What happened after that? It is a simple case of Americans consuming more and more produce that is available round the year. These are also the products that the US has not been able to produce in abundance and at economical costs, because other countries are better suited to grow them. The US is, in fact, a beneficiary of the globalised food trade regime.
By Richard Mahapatra| Down To Earth Verified The world is in debt. From developed economies to developing ones, public debt has reached a historic level—and along with it, the burden of servicing these loans. In 2024, the US, for the first time, spent more on debt servicing than on the military. The UK is in a situation popularly termed a “debt death spiral”. At the World Economic Forum held in January in Davos, Switzerland, Zimbabwean Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube spoke of his country’s debt crisis: “We’ve even got a tax now on fast food.
By Richard Mahapatra| Down To Earth Verified For 60 years until 2019, the US had maintained the agricultural trade balance. What happened after that? It is a simple case of Americans consuming more and more produce that is available round the year. These are also the products that the US has not been able to produce in abundance and at economical costs, because other countries are better suited to grow them. The US is, in fact, a beneficiary of the globalised food trade regime.
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Down To Earth
When you join Down to Earth, you join more than a local company. You join a great team that has been making a positive contribution to our community and our planet since 1977. It all began when a group of friends in Wailuku, Maui, turned their enthusiasm and passion for organic and natural foods and their vegetarian values into a great store that has become one of Hawaii's leading providers of local, fresh, organic and natural products.
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Founded: 1977