The food crisis has driven home two important lessons: firstly, that global agricultural production needs to be increased, significantly, and secondly, that short-sighted agricultural and tariff policies can cause mass starvation. The solution to both of these problems is a bigger, freer market in agricultural goods -- not a reversion to some impossible ideal of self-sufficiency.
Food: Against Self-Sufficiency - Finance Blog - Felix Salmon - Market Movers - Portfolio.com
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