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It’s completely off topic but the example is hilariously terrible — the Netherlands are second largest world food exporter

zwkrt 5y ago
Per capita? I find that really surprising!
- desdiv 5y ago
  I'm not sure which metric GP is referring to, but by total value of food exports they're 7th in the world. Extremely impressive for a country of only 17 million people. [0] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/by-country/Product/16-24_FoodProd https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea...
  - kaybe 5y ago
    It helps that most things I've seen so far are pretty high value per volume such as more expensive vegetables.
    - adriand 5y ago
      It's probably because the Dutch diaspora has succeeded in getting their children hooked on stroopwafels (syrup waffles), salt licorice and those amazing dense raisin buns that seem to be approximately 50% raisins... I for one am happy to continue supporting their export economy!
    - bserge 5y ago
- Vinnl 5y ago
  Not per capita, in absolute numbers, a couple of years ago at least [1]. That said, there are different ways to measure; this is by value. You could also imagine e.g. measuring by calories. Presumably, per capita it's number one. [1] This tiny country feeds the world - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...
- rasz 5y ago
  When I think Dutch I think 'boring people' followed by 'greenhouses' https://www.archdaily.com/932301/how-the-dutch-use-architecture-to-feed-the-world https://www.archdaily.com/932301/how-the-dutch-use-architect...
owenversteeg 5y ago
We are indeed, but worth noting - that's per dollar exported and a lot of that comes from having Europe's largest ports, as well as a lot of processing and auctioning of food. Still, we grow a very large amount of food, especially relative to the size of the country. We're the 9th largest potato producer [0] in the world, despite being a tiny country both population and size wise, because we have the highest yields in the world. Someone downthread linked a NatGeo article explaining more [1] but we have far higher yields, several times higher than any other country, on many crops, such as chilies, green peppers, cucumbers etc. [0] the very helpful FAOSTAT is excellent for things like this: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL [1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...

zwkrt 5y ago

Per capita? I find that really surprising!

desdiv 5y ago
I'm not sure which metric GP is referring to, but by total value of food exports they're 7th in the world. Extremely impressive for a country of only 17 million people. [0] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Year/LTST/TradeFlow/Export/Partner/by-country/Product/16-24_FoodProd https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/WLD/Yea...
- kaybe 5y ago
  It helps that most things I've seen so far are pretty high value per volume such as more expensive vegetables.
  - adriand 5y ago
    It's probably because the Dutch diaspora has succeeded in getting their children hooked on stroopwafels (syrup waffles), salt licorice and those amazing dense raisin buns that seem to be approximately 50% raisins... I for one am happy to continue supporting their export economy!
  - bserge 5y ago
Vinnl 5y ago
Not per capita, in absolute numbers, a couple of years ago at least [1]. That said, there are different ways to measure; this is by value. You could also imagine e.g. measuring by calories. Presumably, per capita it's number one. [1] This tiny country feeds the world - https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...
rasz 5y ago
When I think Dutch I think 'boring people' followed by 'greenhouses' https://www.archdaily.com/932301/how-the-dutch-use-architecture-to-feed-the-world https://www.archdaily.com/932301/how-the-dutch-use-architect...

owenversteeg 5y ago

We are indeed, but worth noting - that's per dollar exported and a lot of that comes from having Europe's largest ports, as well as a lot of processing and auctioning of food. Still, we grow a very large amount of food, especially relative to the size of the country. We're the 9th largest potato producer [0] in the world, despite being a tiny country both population and size wise, because we have the highest yields in the world. Someone downthread linked a NatGeo article explaining more [1] but we have far higher yields, several times higher than any other country, on many crops, such as chilies, green peppers, cucumbers etc. [0] the very helpful FAOSTAT is excellent for things like this: https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/QCL [1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/holland-...