Ever since the United
States started subsidizing its rice growers in the 1990s, Haiti's farmers have
been struggling. The cheap grain, grown on mega-farms in Arkansas and elsewhere
in the American South, has flooded the Haitian market and put local farmers out
of business -- as Maura O'Connor details in her investigation into the impact of U.S. agricultural policy in Haiti. Here's a look at the rice fields in the two regions at the heart of this story.
Marie Therese Jean Paul, 51, works in her rice field in Haiti's Central Plateau on Sept. 18, 2008.
