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| There is certainly no reason with even half way modern farming techniques that most of the countries with famine can't feed themselves and likely end up exportors. Bad leaders being elected or at least tolerated by a nation resulting in starvation. The more I look at it, the more I think it's really incredible evil leaders that are 99.999% of the problem.
We grow food really well - always have and always will. Remember our sacred goal - produce enough to make the price at or below our cost of production. I'm guessing even once the mexicans and native americans started growing corn they ended up with 3 cobs too many and almost nothing for their effort. While I agree a free country and our 'American spirit' go a long way, it's not impossible for a country like Africa to grow a really big pile of food if they were motivated/lead to do it.
thanks,
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Jim Rogers off his rocker? from Mish
