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

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

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should produce foods and their supply

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internally just to the extent

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not strictly dependent on a certain monopoly of

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

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supply

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

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

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supply alternatives.

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, in case a country has quite enough alternative

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to supply each strategic

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

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of the value

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like

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processing industries,

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

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, strict and unrealistic decisions for supplying most of the

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internally are neither possible nor beneficial for

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. In better words, in some rare cases,

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governments about

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importing, like

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

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by themselves internally.

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attitude toward the supply

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, in

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

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

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industries are heavily water-consuming.

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

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

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

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

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

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for

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supply, taking aggressive measures like what

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