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20: Case Study 5: They Ate the Chickens

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813200586_0020Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)
    Abstract:

    I met up with friend who has an egg farm and after visiting Haiti for disaster relief, I returned to start a social business. In a small village, I met up with a few families and found that they were doing little economic activities which gave them a daily wage of about $7. One of them was involved in buying a big bag of rice, carrying it up the village 15 miles away, and selling cups of rice, making very little money. As I saw that most of their food and things they use are imported, I felt that eggs would be a cheap source of protein which people could use…