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Episode 12 - When Helping the Poor Makes Their Poverty Worse | Joel Cunningham
What if the food we send to hungry people is part of the reason they stay hungry?
Joel Cunningham is CEO of Hamara and a fifth-generation Zimbabwean. His family has spent 40 years in African farming, and they failed for a long time before they found what works. He tells Zac Sicher that most hunger in Africa is not caused by famine or war. It is caused by broken systems. Small farmers have good land around them but cannot reach good feed, vets, trucks or buyers. When charities hand out food in places like that, they can put local farmers out of business and leave people depending on help that…
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