Only Britain and Denmark, both net food importers, and Ireland, which was ruled by Britain, kept their agricultural markets open.
Some agricultural experts also argue that the outside world's relentless focus on developing agricultural exports is perverse in a country that has long been a net food importer and whose people suffer from widespread nutrition deficiencies.
Or at least how much food people grow, net, pick, and gather and how much the rest of us pay for the fruit of their efforts.
What I do want is social welfare spending aimed at efficiently providing the least well off with a minimal safety net: food, shelter and health care about covers it, and these things ought to require demonstrated need and ongoing efforts to get off welfare rolls.
Since 2007 the country has been a net importer of food, after decades of self-sufficiency.
Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now a net importer of food and facing acute shortages of most essentials such as fuel, electricity and medical drugs.
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Capriles said he will reverse land expropriations, which he says have ruined many farms and forced Venezuela to import food after previously being a net exporter of beef, rice, coffee and other foods.
But Badiane agreed that while some African nations are likely to remain net importers, Africa's improved economic performance over the last 10 to 15 years indicates many African countries do have the potential to become net exporters of food.
But now we grow infinitely more food, and we are massive net exporters, with some 1 million jobs.
John Stevenson, a spokesman for the Department for Work and Pensions told CNN the government already provides "safety net" essentials like food and housing through the benefits system.
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Figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show that the Consumer Price Index stood at 2.9% at the end of September, net of the volatile food and energy markets.
And so, especially since the 1960's, several federal food assistance programs are now in place to provide a safety net for needy families including SNAP, National School Breakfast and Lunch, the Summer Food Service Program, the Child and Adult Care Food Program, and WIC.
Probably, no extension of the safety net embracing unemployment insurance and food stamps.
He hasn't embraced the bill Mr. Ryan shepherded through the House earlier this year that would fend off year-end cuts in military spending by squeezing from food stamps and other social-safety-net programs.
The net result being less chemicals on our food, and potentially lower costs for producers.
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For instance, net profits of Cheil Jedang, a food and beverage company, last year jumped tenfold, to 106 billion won, and in the first half of this year by 57%, to 94 billion won.
Food exporters, and countries where farmers are self-sufficient, or net sellers, benefit.
The net effect: the closer, more reliable, and plentiful the food, the stronger the trail, the more ants follow.
This will most likely entail increasing the corn ethanol mix in petroleum, running up food costs, depleting water supplies, and causing environmental land damage while affording no net CO2 emission reduction.
"While it is highly likely that sales will have deteriorated in some food lines, such as value burgers, other categories may have benefitted, meaning that there is little net loss overall, " he said.
"The high-valued homes that are fetching the highest prices are the ones that cater to the lifestyle interests of the high-net-worth individuals, " she says, citing considerations like easy access to leisure activities and good food and wine.
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