Energy would be fine, and central planning for food is good, with incentives and subsidies to grow food which might otherwise be at cost, but if the government owns the production of food directly that can cause problems like it did in China, USSR, Nazi Germany, Ireland, France under Monarchy, and like a hundred other times as well.
In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron. I’m not 100% on whats going on in Cuba but they’re historically an agricultural nation onset by famine during the blockades, so I’m guessing they grew a lot of tobacco and spices.
Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there. Hard agree on everything else you said.
In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron
Do you have sources for this? I’ma be honest: when a country is laboring under brutal sanctions - sanctions designed to create famine conditions, to make ordinary citizens desperate enough to overthrow their government - claiming that the famines are really caused by that government making farmers grow the wrong crops… I’m willing to be proven wrong but that doesn’t pass the smell test to me.
Energy would be fine, and central planning for food is good, with incentives and subsidies to grow food which might otherwise be at cost, but if the government owns the production of food directly that can cause problems like it did in China, USSR, Nazi Germany, Ireland, France under Monarchy, and like a hundred other times as well.
In fact recent famines in Iran and Afghanistan were the result of overproduction of cash crops like Saffron. I’m not 100% on whats going on in Cuba but they’re historically an agricultural nation onset by famine during the blockades, so I’m guessing they grew a lot of tobacco and spices.
Sorry, I went on a bit of a rant there. Hard agree on everything else you said.
Do you have sources for this? I’ma be honest: when a country is laboring under brutal sanctions - sanctions designed to create famine conditions, to make ordinary citizens desperate enough to overthrow their government - claiming that the famines are really caused by that government making farmers grow the wrong crops… I’m willing to be proven wrong but that doesn’t pass the smell test to me.
Lol, dudes blaming Iran famine on other countries and not the dictatorship who chose to move out of the capital to avoid it affecting them personally.