That's true; but what I'm saying is that the guy in Africa will raise his/her price to not starve. He/she will double the price and the buyer in the rich country doesn't care. And the competition will do the same thing, as they're starving.
In the Great Famine, exporting leads to economic gain; it's just that people were poor. If you ban exports then exporters lose money and so they'll also become more poor.
Anyways, what you're saying is moot as we already have a world price for most food.
>That's true; but what I'm saying is that the guy in Africa will raise his/her price to not starve. He/she will double the price and the buyer in the rich country doesn't care. And the competition will do the same thing, as they're starving.
The people actually selling the crops in foreign markets won't starve, but these people are often not the actual farmers but middle-men. What about the people who don't farm? Food prices double and they can't just double their own prices and expect to win.
There's a huge economic correction that takes a long time if you break down barriers and the result is a lot of people starving in poor countries and a lot of farms failing in rich ones.
>In the Great Famine, exporting leads to economic gain; it's just that people were poor. If you ban exports then exporters lose money and so they'll also become more poor.
Are you defending the people who found economic gain of the exporters during the famine? 1/8 of the population died. In a closed economy there was more than enough food, prices would have adjusted themselves so that everyone could have eaten. There would have been problems with buying power to import into Ireland, but a million people wouldn't have died and another million wouldn't have fled the country.
In the Great Famine, exporting leads to economic gain; it's just that people were poor. If you ban exports then exporters lose money and so they'll also become more poor.
Anyways, what you're saying is moot as we already have a world price for most food.