| Laws often have unintended consequences—consequences that even the most earnest policymakers fail to mull over. Such is the case with the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (hereinafter the 2002 Farm Bill), which, as discussed herein, has negative impacts on many of the world’s farmers. Many criticisms may be leveled at this law with their genesis across the broad spectrum of domestic political theory as well as international relations theory. Some may choose to focus on the disastrous depression of groundnut prices, a major cash crop of Western Africa, which forces Western Africans further into poverty. This argument would build upon post-colonial criticism, an... |
