Global Trade in Agriculture
Global Trade in Agriculture
Essay Topic: Modern land reform policies, in which large tracts of fertile farmland are parcelled out to smallholders, are one of the best ways of ensuring that diverse agricultural activities meet with the requirements of the domestic population. However, countries such as Japan, South Korea and China today are quick to conduct separate negotiations with politicians of these emerging countries to privatize this fertile farmland, instead of continuing with the land reform policies. This is being done in the belief that large farmland production will result in economies of scale and thereby lead to even lower global food production costs.
What is your opinion on this issue? Discuss.
Land reform, it has been define as any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land or large agricultural holdings among the landless. Agriculture is known as a mainly activity or mainstay of the majority of the 140 members of the WTO. In low-income countries, up to 80% of people rely on this activity to obtain monthly income and their food for their family. Despite of it, even in middle-income countries there are still about 40% of workforces make a living from agriculture while the sector accounts for only 4% of labour in industrialised countries engage with agriculture activities. From this result, it can be consider that there are still a large number of workforces or family need to dependent on agriculture for survival since the number of developing countries still greater than developed countries or industrialised countries and most of these developing countries are rely on agriculture in their countries export to achieve GDP.
Today, modern land reform policies have been implementing in those countries which are discharged into third world countries and developing countries. The main purpose of the policies is to ensure that large tracts of fertile farmland are parcelled out to
Essay Topic: Modern land reform policies, in which large tracts of fertile farmland are parcelled out to smallholders, are one of the best ways of ensuring that diverse agricultural activities meet with the requirements of the domestic population. However, countries such as Japan, South Korea and China today are quick to conduct separate negotiations with politicians of these emerging countries to privatize this fertile farmland, instead of continuing with the land reform policies. This is being done in the belief that large farmland production will result in economies of scale and thereby lead to even lower global food production costs.
What is your opinion on this issue? Discuss.
Land reform, it has been define as any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land or large agricultural holdings among the landless. Agriculture is known as a mainly activity or mainstay of the majority of the 140 members of the WTO. In low-income countries, up to 80% of people rely on this activity to obtain monthly income and their food for their family. Despite of it, even in middle-income countries there are still about 40% of workforces make a living from agriculture while the sector accounts for only 4% of labour in industrialised countries engage with agriculture activities. From this result, it can be consider that there are still a large number of workforces or family need to dependent on agriculture for survival since the number of developing countries still greater than developed countries or industrialised countries and most of these developing countries are rely on agriculture in their countries export to achieve GDP.
Today, modern land reform policies have been implementing in those countries which are discharged into third world countries and developing countries. The main purpose of the policies is to ensure that large tracts of fertile farmland are parcelled out to
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