Some people believe that countries should produce food that populations eats, and import food as less as possible. To what extend do you agree or disagree.

As one of the main critical necessary needs of societies

food

has become a crucial problem for the government in recent decades. I am interested in the idea that

countries

should produce foods and their supply

chain

internally just to the extent

that is

not strictly dependent on a certain monopoly of

countries

, not more. On one hand, historically it has been proven that negotiation on the

food

supply

chain

is one of the critical aspects of most serious international deals, so

countries

will lose their bargaining power even in other directly unrelated fields unless they have resilient and reliable

food

supply alternatives.

In other words

, in case a country has quite enough alternative

countries

to supply each strategic

food

like rice, milk and else, it seems reasonable that import them or just focus on the domestication of the higher

chain

of the value

chain

like

food

processing industries,

otherwise

in case of having less option, the country should invest on primary chains like agriculture sector or grazing animals for the production of meat.

On the other hand

, strict and unrealistic decisions for supplying most of the

food

value

chain

internally are neither possible nor beneficial for

countries

. In better words, in some rare cases,

such

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governments about

food

importing, like

Iran

's government policies in the early 2010s,that they decide to produce most of the

food

supply

chain

by themselves internally.

Such

attitude toward the supply

chain

, in

such

a globalized and interwoven era, is due to the lack of practical understanding of how commercial networks inherently work especially in the

food

chain

.

Also

,

this

could cause water-sourcing challenges in the country, since most of the agriculture and

food

supply

chain

industries are heavily water-consuming.

Such

policies

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regardless of what the public officials want consciously or unconsciously will absolutely result in failure, exactly like what happened to

Iran

in the later years of the 2010s. In fact, not only did

Iran

fail in its policy for independence in agricultural productions like wheat production, but

also

most of the water resources, like Eurumia lake, have been destroyed and dried out due to

such

aggressive policies. To conclude, while it's crucial for the government to not be dependent on a few certain

countries

for

food

supply, taking aggressive measures like what

Iran

did in the 2010s will not work at all and could be detrimental to the environment.