Blog #3 A culture different from your own

Mid-west you see lots of corn in Africa you see lots of rice. There is different types o farming and different things being farmed all over the world. In Edina there isn't really any farming maybe some veggie gardens but nothing that compares to acres of farming. I have friends who live only an hour away that live on a farm, all the kids go to school and live normal life's but tend to miss a good amount of classes due to the care of the farm. There family's farm produces both food for there family as well as for others in the community. If a storm or tornado would go Thur there town it would most likely ruin there crops and loose a huge part of there income for that year, but they do have other fall backs and a different job their family won't suffer that much , but in Africa its different. In Africa if you go into the rice farming business and a storm or is disease wipes out your crops your screwed!! There is no fall back people end up in debt and whomever there indebted to takes everything. “We don’t have any control of the market,” he said. “There is huge volatility, and that makes it very difficult to protect their investments.” Africans loose everything they have if something goes bad. Living in Edina creates are own little safety bubble it seems even with the economy families can still live with most of there everyday normal commodities.It takes alot to realise what ges on in other part of the world with out living there for sn extended amout of time.


Polgreen, Lydia. "West African Villagers Stake Their Fortunes on the Future Price of Rice." New York Times. 25 January 2009. 8 February 2009.<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/world/africa/26senegal.html?_r=1>