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a) strawberries?
b) kale? or,
c) rhubarb?
Sam
Hmmm, it’s definitely not strawberries ‘cos they only grow in summer, so I’ll say
b) kale.
Neil
OK, I’ll reveal the answer later. We’ve talked about supermarkets in Britain, but
food waste is happening all over the world. In Puerto Rico, too, most people shop
in supermarkets, making it difficult for farmers to choose what to sell, and how
much to charge for their fruit and vegetables.
Sam
Josefina Arcay is a farmer who wanted to make it easier for customers to buy local
food. She started an online shop to connect shoppers with farmers directly,
without the supermarkets. Here Josefina explains her project to Jo Mathys,
reporter for BBC World Service Programme, People Fixing The World.
Jo Mathys
So Josefina, that's the farmer who we heard earlier growing those giant avocados,
she used to have to sell her crops to these kind of middlemen.
Josefina Arcay
We had a lot of… I don’t know how you call carreros... it’s just people that have a
big truck and they will just come by, and they will say, ‘What do you have? Ohhh…
that's too expensive! Wooh… very expensive! I want it half that price’. So I didn't
have any way of controlling how I was going to sell - it just depended on these
people coming.
Jo Mathys
And a lot of these carreros are kind of commissioned by the supermarkets. All this
leads to food waste because it's really hard for farmers, like Josefina, to predict
which crops they're going to be able to sell.
Neil
Josefina used to sell her food to carreros or middlemen – people who buy food
directly from the grower, and make money by selling it on to customers. Josefina
had no control over what to sell, and a lot of her food went to waste.
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