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...ey, with the money they would buy food and other products. The demand for cotton decreased which meant the price off the cotton went down because the price of it went down the British paid the Sudanese less money for their cotton which also meant that the Sudanese did not have enough money to buy food and other products. In the 1960’s the amount of cotton being produced decreased and the Sudanese started making more food the Sudanese made enough food to feed their population and have so left over to sell for profit. The land use In the 1970’s changed because the Sudanese needed to develop their infrastructure, they wanted to make roads, hospitals, schools and a lot more. The Sudanese could not afford to do this so they took out loans from the world bank. This led to the Sudanese being in debt. In the 1980’s there was a drought and the Sudanese could not grow any crops which meant they were not getting any income through selling their products, this meant that the Sudanese could not pay back the loans that the bank gave them which threw then into deeper debt. The IMF and the World Bank insisted that the Sudanese went back to producing cotton and with the money they got from selling the cotton the banks insisted that the Sudanese bought US wheat. The small farmers in the Gezira go their land stolen by bigger farmers. The smaller farmers were forced to work for the commercial farms, no guarantee on work. The nomadic farmers were being forced off their...