• Dr. Moose@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Japan has no domestic food security, it imports 60% of all food (one of the highest in the world btw) and it would be unsustainable any other way so it must have a strong trade policy. This makes the recent Japanese alt right moves all more idiotic.

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          23 hours ago

          Correct. So that means the incentive would obviously be placed on higher value crops and not necessarily staple crops like rice.

          That’s a big problem for a nation’s food security

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          Farmers being 80 years old and young people moving to the cities doesn’t help.

          Nor do the laws making it essentially impossible for foreign nationals to own and manage farmland.

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            1 day ago

            Definitely. I lookup Japan’s immigration programs every year and every year is not good enough for anyone worth their salt to bother, especially when compared to neighboring countries. Also the current political shift to right is a major red flag.