Originally Posted By: kallog
Originally Posted By: ImagingGeek
The answer is obvious - when people leave their farms, and move to the city, they sell their farms. To go back they need to buy a new farm - a hard thing to do when you don't even have enough money to feed your family.


Welcome back.

So the problem isn't international trade, it's poor decision making on the part of the locals. And the solution would be more information availabilty, not economic isolation.


I wouldn't say poor decision making is the problem either. More often than not, families leave the farms during periods of difficulty - drought, etc. Or they are forced out by larger land owners. Or their land is lost to desertification (a very common problem in sub-saharan africa) or urbanization.

Farmers rarely leave their land by choice.

Bryan

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