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Every farmer has a decision: Eat the grain, or sell the grain. They sell it if the money has more value to them than eating it. Unless they're indentured ser
by mathattack 13y ago
Every farmer has a decision: Eat the grain, or sell the grain. They sell it if the money has more value to them than eating it. Unless they're indentured servants or slaves, they are doing this for their own benefit. If they'd starve as a result, they just wouldn't sell the crop.
- rosser 13y agoWhat about the broader community?
- icebraining 13y agoHow broader? ;) The local community loses cheap quinoa, but gains with the influx of money from abroad.
- Daishiman 13y agoIf the local community has no economic integration and no means to afford the transportation costs associated with imports (because transportation has been optimized for a certain crop), then it's a problem. Malnutrition has been an endemic problem in Bolivia since the Spaniards pillaged its mineral wealth. This does little to improve things.