European milk is pouring into Africa, with disastrous effects for local herders and farmers.
Multibillion-euro dairy multinationals are exploiting rock-bottom European milk prices to expand aggressively into West Africa.
Over five years, they have nearly tripled their exports to the region, shipping milk powder produced by heavily subsidized European farmers to be transformed into liquid milk for the region’s booming middle class.
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