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"The second part of the world food paradox is the surplus. To get rid of the surplus countries would need to get rid of subsidies and trade barriers." 

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"The second part of the world food paradox is the surplus. To get rid of the surplus countries would need to get rid of subsidies and trade barriers." 

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Many countries like Japan and the US give farm subsidies to keep prices of products low and to protect farmers from the market. This creates a huge surplus and also reduce the amount of fair trade among countries. This also makes it had for developing nations to enter the market since domestic prices are intentionally kept so low. If subsidies were to be taken away farmers would produce less fixing the surplus of crops but then have a surplus of land. The solution for this is diversification as shown in the movie. Farm subsidies have a negative effect on farms and nations that do not get subsidies (Ahearn, El-Osta, Drewbre, 2006).

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Impact of Coupled and Decoupled Government Subsidies on Off-Farm Labor Participation of U.S. Farm Operators

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Abstract. With the 1996 Farm Act, the United States introduced payments that were designed to be "decoupled." Labor allocation choices are likely to be affecte

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"Helping other countries actually helps us as well because now that they have money they are actually buying more." 

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"Helping other countries actually helps us as well because now that they have money they are actually buying more." 

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In the video when talking about Thailand some made the point that rich nations should not help poor nations because it would cause more competition and have a negative effect on the developed world. This is untrue though because when we help other nations and allow them to grow agriculturally they also grow economically and with that they have more money to put into the economy and they actually buy more from the developed nations. In his book J.R. Benjamin states that since Thailand has been able to grow from the help of developed nations the people now have more to buy food and complete the cycle of growing and consuming, having a positive effect on rich nations who they are buying from (Benjamin, 1968).

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CAB Direct platform is the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health

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"Agricultural health is improving and so is the welfare of the people."

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"Agricultural health is improving and so is the welfare of the people."

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In the movie it showed that when communities were able to improve their agricultural situation their overall well being also improved. The people of Morocco were able to create man made barriers against desertification and became better off than other communities who had not. The people in Morocco knew to do this because of the research their university had done. This shows that with the technological know how communities can do a lot with their already existing resources and don’t need that much help from rich nations. If governments were to impose some policies or programs to help farmers have access to these technologies citizens would be better off than just receiving food aid (Krueger, Schiff, Valdes, 1988).

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Agricultural Incentives in Developing Countries: Measuring the Effect of Sectoral and Economywide Policies - 24 Hours access

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Agricultural Incentives in Developing Countries: Measuring the Effect of Sectoral and Economywide Policies | The World Bank Economic Review | Oxford Academic

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Abstract. The impact of sector-specific (direct) and economywide (indirect) policies on agricultural incentives for eighteen developing countries for the perio

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"A longer run solution has to involve creating the capacity in the country for them to produce food for themselves." 

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"A longer run solution has to involve creating the capacity in the country for them to produce food for themselves." 

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Developing nations would be better off if instead of developed nations, like the US, gave them aid to help create their own agricultural system that work in their region instead of just giving the people food as a short-term solution.  The people want hope and the ability to farm for themselves rather than handouts from rich nations. In his book R.C. Hornik concludes that most agricultural projects in third world countries fail and they end up needing more food aid. This is because a lot of times rich nations give developing nations the equipment but not the technological know how (Hornik, 1993).

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CAB Direct platform is the most thorough and extensive source of reference in the applied life sciences, incorporating the leading bibliographic databases CAB Abstracts and Global Health

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"Shipping food only makes the situation worse. Dumping the surplus in the third world only keeps their price down so they can't afford to produce it." 

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"Shipping food only makes the situation worse. Dumping the surplus in the third world only keeps their price down so they can't afford to produce it." 

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By developed countries dumping their surplus off food on third world countries only makes the situation worse for their farmers because now that food is accessible it drives down the price of the local farmer's product and could lead them to not being able to produce at all. The Journal of International Development stated that in an article that by providing food aid developed nations are only prolonging the problem by providing a short-term solution. In certain situations, food aid can be very helpful like in cases after natural disasters but, in cases like sub Saharan Africa where there is always a food shortage providing food aid is not helpful (Awokuse, 2011).