{"id":1709,"date":"2008-06-30T23:56:33","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T15:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2009-03-01T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T04:46:48","slug":"1703-of-comparative-advantage-versus-food-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"[1703] Of comparative advantage versus food sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just one of those articles which try to point out that the idea of food sovereignty is flawed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One relates directly to trade: Is it best to specialize in whatever food grows best in a country\u2019s soil, and trade it for all other food needs \u2014 or even, perhaps, specialize in services or manufacturing, and trade those for food?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it best to seek self-sufficiency in every type of food that will, weather permitting, grow within a country\u2019s borders? [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/30\/business\/worldbusiness\/30trade.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hoarding Nations Drive Food Costs Ever Higher<\/em><\/a>. Keith Bradsher. Andrew Martin. New York Times. June 30 2008]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been skeptical to the idea of food sovereignty <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1103\" target=\"_self\">from the beginning<\/a>. Food sovereignty in its essence is protectionism, hurts trade and subsequently makes us all poorer (on average, of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just one of those articles which try to point out that the idea of food sovereignty is flawed. One relates directly to trade: Is it best to specialize in whatever food grows best in a country\u2019s soil, and trade it for all other food needs \u2014 or even, perhaps, specialize in services or manufacturing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[215,216,217],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-comparative-advantage","tag-food-security","tag-food-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2605,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}