This is an important point. Establishing a clothing / textile industry has historically been the first step on the rung to industrialisation and moving from a low income, resource extraction based economy to a medium income manufacturing based economy, despite the deservedly poor reputation of the textile industry for environmental damage and labour exploitation.
Toms Shoes[0] is the classical example of this. I like the idea of things like Kiva[1] and did 214 loans with them over the years[2] but they have been looking a little sketchy lately. Rather than dumping goods and destroying local businesses I think investment is a better way to improve conditions in developing nations. For example in the US we have farm subsidies that buy up food at above market prices and ship it to struggling nations, but I'd argue it would be much more effective to take those same subsidies and invest in local farmers instead. If you do it right the cost of that program isn't much more than the cost of inflation plus currency differences over the course of the loan.
Kiva has always seemed to have people who aren't fans of the model and has had problems in the past[0]. Lately it's been more of a feeling, the messaging has a corporate spin to it that makes it harder to give them the benefit of the doubt. A specific thing is they have done recently made the page where you withdraw funds harder to use, and it seems like they have stopped sending emails to me when I have funds available in my account.
Kiva sends me emails weekly, asking me to relend my funds as they get paid back. So the email is not the problem. In fact, I get emails from them every few days.
The thing that I wonder about Kiva is the "donate to Kiva" part. If you lend, and re-lend as money is paid back, and re-lend again, with the default "donate to Kiva" settings... eventually, after a couple of years, 100% of your money ends up in Kiva's hands and not a poor person.
But that said, I never expected to withdraw my money back.
Also chicken wings. In the EU, nobody wants to eat chicken wings, just the bigger chicken meat parts. So the chicken wings end up for almost free in Africa and also destroyed every chicken farm, because the where more expensive than the chicken from EU.
Looking at the Chinese cuisine one starts to wonder about other parts. Wings are relatively popular, but what about things like feet, neck, head and organs? What we do with all of them? As clearly they are not even on the full birds.
Same goes for pigs. You can buy some, but the ratio is entirely off.
A lot of it is turned into processed meat and sauces (burgers, sausages, jars of pasta sauce). A lot of what is left over after that actually becomes animal feed again! Since BSE (mad cow disease) we need to feed animals to different animals though, so we no longer feed cows to cows, but e.g. turn cows to pig or dog food.
The parts which are thrown away are usually mandatory for hygienic reasons. The spinal column, remaining gut contents, ...
Interesting factlet; in Thailand chicken feet sell for over twice the price by weight compared to chicken breast (which is the cheapest part!). Despite a tiny amount of that weight being actual edible meat.
I have also seen them sold in supermarkets in Portugal, to my surprise.
IIRC China imports chicken feet from places like Australia at a premium, which I think started with lack of supply due to a bird flu. This required the foreign chicken farmers to dramatically improve the conditions of the chickens so that their feet were in good enough condition to sell.
All the chicken gets used, even if just turned into stock powder or fertilizer or chicken feed. I imagine the same goes for all the pig heads.
This also happened with "cheap" milk powder from the EU to (iirc) Ghana.
Ghana was helping to finance the EU's overproduction of milk.