Inappropriate cash crop policy

Although it is generally agreed that diversifying the crops produced by a community is necessary in order to maintain steady annual income, most rural communities raise only a few, or often a single, cash crop. This is generally because its easy marketability and stable price continue to provide the villagers with a basic income. There is deep apprehension of the risks involved in starting new crops when no-one is sure they can be grown or marketed, despite the fact that sometimes the cost of marketing what is produced at present virtually wipes out any profit, keeping family income at a subsistence level.

1. Unprotected vulnerable economies
2. Undiversified national economies
3. Reduction of diversity through policy
4. Inappropriate development policy
5. Exploitative agribusiness
6. Dependence on production for distant export markets
7. Agricultural mismanagement

1. Unsustainable shrimp farming
2. Misuse of agricultural land for fuel production
3. Lack of production for domestic consumers
4. Degradation of agricultural land by cash crops
5. Cultivation of illegal drugs

1. Tropical deforestation
2. Prohibitive cost of necessities in rural communities
3. Insufficient returns from farming
4. Instability of the commodities trade
5. Instability of production of food and live animals
6. Inadequate farm crop diversity
7. Deterioration of staple food production
8. Cultivation of marginal agricultural land
9. Conflicts arising from depletion of renewable resources
10. Agricultural overproduction

1. Unethical food practices
2. Insufficient farm experiments
3. Food monopolies
4. Environmental degradation due to creation of dams
5. Burden of servicing foreign public debt
6. Agricultural fraud

1. Insufficient cash crops

1. Excessive agricultural footprint

1. Reducing number of cash crops
2. Reducing incidence of malnutrition
3. Preserving land
4. Planning new cash crops
5. Increasing global food production
6. Growing food crops
7. Growing cash crops
8. Globalizing food sourcing

1. Discouragement
2. Inappropriateness
3. Undiversified
4. Loss
5. Proliferation