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| CSP also represents one of three possible routes for the 2007 farm bill; the others being a continuation and perhaps fattening of traditional crop supports or, alternately, adoption of a revenue assurance plan to protect growers against crop failure, as well as low prices. The marketing loan program and loan deficiency payments (LDP) provide very little support to producers who have diminished yields or suffer total crop failure. In one example, desperate subsistence farmers displaced by desertification and crop failure are more likely to cultivate poppies as part of the drug trade, which is intrinsically linked to insecurity in Afghanistan. |
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