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Zimbabwe's Beef Industry Can't Respond to U.S. Crisis

By Jason Beaubien

Published December 29, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Several years ago, cattle farmers in Zimbabwe would have been in a strong position to profit from the mad cow concerns over beef in the United States. But the government's seizure of commercial farms over the past three years has devastated the nation's commercial beef industry. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

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Jason Beaubien

Jason Beaubien is a Peabody award-winning journalist. He's filed stories from more than 60 countries around the world. His reporting tends to focus on issues in lower-income countries. Often his reports highlight inequities, injustices and abuses of power. He also regularly writes about natural disasters, wars and human conflict. Over the last two decades he's covered hurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in the Philippines, multiple earthquakes in Haiti, the Arab Spring, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the drug war in Mexico.