Photo: G. Pascal Zachary
Shoppers at a market in Lira, Uganda, consider various offerings of rice, most of them imported. “Africa still imports a lot of food, and probably the single biggest food import is rice,” says Zachary. Imported rice tends to be cheap, because rice farmers in Southeast Asia and the United States who receive government subsidies can afford to sell below cost in Africa. To boost local production, Uganda has placed duties on imported rice and encouraged the cultivation of a “dry” variety of rice developed in Sierra Leone.















G. Pascal Zachary
is the author of Bush’s biography, Endless Frontier (1997), and the editor of The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush (Columbia University Press, 2022). He has taught at Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and Arizona State University.
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