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Reporter aidan hartley presents a snapshot of life on the caribbean island of haiti. described as existing in a permanent state of emergency, it's the poorest country in the western hemisphere and an extreme example of the dilemma of aid dependency, with a quarter of the population reliant on food handouts.
hurricanes cause such devastation that any recovery between the storms and floods seems both difficult and futile. charcoal production has led to deforestation and erosion, leaving the exposed, rocky landscape looking like a graveyard. the land can't sustain the population and us rice imports are half the price of home-grown.
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