Exportkulturen als Beitrag zur Ernaehrungssicherung.
1986
Ahrens H.
Under certain conditions which are fulfilled in many developing countries, the cultivation of export crops according to the principle of comparative advantage can contribute to effectively fight undernutrition in the third world. When export crop cultivation takes place in a capital intensive way on big farms in a system of a very unequal distribution of land ownership there will, however, hardly be any contribution to the goal of alleviating hunger. Other problems may arise with respect to unwarranted effects on nature and ecology. It would be wrong to conclude that such possible drawbacks speak in favour of generally reducing the production of export crops. More appropriately, negative effects should be prevented, or compensated for, directly wherever they arise, by policies in developing countries - aided, if possible, by the cooperation of the international community. To the extent that industrialized countries pursue protectionist import policies, the latter present severe constraints to the nevertheless basically desirable goal of export orientation in developing countries.
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