Countries should produce the food that their population eats, and import as little as possible. To what extent do agree and disagree? Give reasons, examples to you answer.

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In current days, it is common for
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to import food
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from other foreign
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, Japan imports various fruit
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from Taiwan.
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phenomenon raises the question of whether
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should buy
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from other
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or they should produce food
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on their own as many as possible. In the following, I will offer my view. Some argue that
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should not rely on imported
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; rather, they should produce
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on their own via manufacturing or farming.
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way is beneficial to
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' stable development since they will not easily be affected by other
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.
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, if the output
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are in a financial crisis, they may raise the
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' prices. In
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way,
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that import too many food
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may spend a large sum of money on those
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, they have to cut off their expenditure on other stuff,
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as infrastructure, education, or medicine,
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detrimental to their own development.
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, for some small
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, I think they are hard to produce
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independently. An example is Singapore.
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small country does not have enough land and population to develop its own farming industry.
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, they primarily focus on providing financial services, which need not land and population, to other
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.
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, the Singapore government does not really have a choice. It can only import
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from other
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for the consumption of its citizens. In short, I agree that
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producing
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on their own are an advantage to their development. Yet, purchasing
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from other nations is unavoidable in some exceptional cases.
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, at least for those particular cases, I think that
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do not have an obligation to produce
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on their own.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • self-sufficiency
  • trade dependency
  • food security
  • sustainable agriculture
  • local economies
  • carbon footprint
  • supply chain
  • food miles
  • agricultural sector
  • domestic production
  • import substitution
  • food sovereignty
  • global supply chains
  • trade imbalances
  • food standards
  • economic resilience
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