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So what is a valid and useful definition of self sufficiency in your opinion? I think any definition would lead to massively plummeting living standards in a c

• jelliclesfarm 7y ago
  What were the Swedes eating before they could ship food from all over the world? We have hydroponics, automation and the ability of western worlds to pay what food is worth. Developing countries and poor countries should be able to use their resources for their advancement and not to provide cheap food to richer countries. If Sweden cannot grow olive oil because it’s an exotic commodity from a foreign land, they must pay dearly for it. The notion that we buy cheap from nations that have a surfeit of resources and are favourably placed for ag closer to the equator has its origins in colonialism. Over consumption in richer countries stem from unequal trade terms and results in inequalities. Just imagine..you can never ever grow or make olive oil in Sweden. How valuable it must be for them? Why isn’t Turkey making bank and stashing Euros like Alladins and inside treasure cave? Africa’s natural resources and Chile’s minerals ...why are they picking up pennies while the whole world proposers trading while they don’t? I see the same thing in Ag. Farmers have the most precious non renewable resource ..water and land. You cannot print land, you know? And yet, why are farmers always in debt and killing themselves because they can’t pay back the bank for their quarter million dollar tractors and credit lines? Something smells fishy, no?