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Strolling around supermarkets in Dar es Salaam, it is easier to find boxes of orange juice from Dubai, lines of canned beef from the UK and butter and cheese from as far away as New Zealand, than it is to find local produce. This, critics of the developed world's US $380 billion agricultural subsidies say, is real proof of the impact that the policy has on the development of local markets and industries.