How efforts to send Haiti cheap rice made it hard for the nation to produce its own
April 10, 2025
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as posted by the channelCorrection: This piece has been edited in order to remove references to a study on arsenic levels in rice consumed in Haiti, which was retracted before this piece aired.
Through an editorial review of our production on this piece, we discovered that this study was both retracted and not peer reviewed, an important benchmark for our coverage of scientific studies. Because of this, the study should not have been cited in our published work. We regret the error.
As the U.S. sees new tariffs, we look at how they can make or break an economy. In Haiti, U.S. policies forced the government to bring down tariffs on foreign goods, allowing American farmers to export crops cheaply. That made it expensive for Haitians to eat food grown domestically, leading to dependence on foreign aid. Special correspondent Marcia Biggs and videographer Eric O'Connor report.
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