discouraging efficient production-in order to pro- vide low-cost food to politically volatile city dwellers.
Wealthy, industralized countries respond to Third World food prob- lems on the basis of domestic politics and economic self-interest (e.g., controlling the home market for commodities like rice and sugar to protect their own producers). The Western nations have cut their finan- cial aid to Third World agriculture since 1975 and have still not estab- lished an international system of grain...