8.Some people think
that a nation should produce as much food as possible in their own
place, but rather import little food from other countries. To what
extent do you agree or disagree?
Never before in
history have we witnessed such a rapid growth in population. This begs the
problem regarding the shortage of food supply in many countries,
particularly those developing ones. It is believed that a country should
balance their food production and import rather than solely depend on
either of them. This will be proven by analysing one country’s geographical
limitation and the economic theory behind international trade.
For one, some countries,
especially those located in inner continent, may be unable to produce sufficient
food to meet their domestic demand. For example, Vantican, a geographically
small country situated in central Europ, maybe not only lack the fertile farm
land to grow crops, but also suffer from inadequate certain category of
food. This might be a typical representative of other sparsely resourced nations
who have no alternative but to import food. Thus, the necessity for food
importation and geographical disadvantage are inextricably linked.
In addition to this, microeconomics
has already proven that countries will be better off laterally through
international trade in early 1990s. For instance, experts base their theory on
comparative advantage of different countries, arguing that the output of both
nation would increase were they produce according to their comparative
advantage and then exchange with counterparts. Consequently, the benefit of
importing food is proven.
To recapitulate,
after analysing the necessities and merits of food importation, it is safely to
conclude that every country, to some extent, needs to import food rather than produce
all by itself. It is predicted that international trade will be more and more prosperous
in the future.
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