Food Shortages due to Socialism II

"Egypt's authoritarian regime faces a mounting political threat over its inability to maintain a steady supply of heavily subsidized bread to its impoverished citizens;"

"That's especially true when the source of their hunger is not the absence of food supplies but their inability to afford to buy the available food supplies."

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1730107,00.html

Subsidies due more harm than good.

Rice 'Shortage' due to Socialism I

"Instead of tilling the ricefields and maintaining the stone and mud walls by hand for meager returns, young Ifugaos now prefer tourism-related jobs such as weaving handicrafts, woodcarving, and guiding tourists to tending the rice terraces, said Baguilat."

""The young Ifugaos have lost their links with the terraces, even disliking the idea of tilling the mountainsides. Well the reason is obvious. Aside from the tedious and manual labor required, terrace farming is no longer profitable and practical," he added."

"Rice farming is labor intensive, and it reaps relatively low financial returns. "When you can get a high-paying, white-collar job working in the city, who wants to push a plow in the mud all day?" Baguilat asked."

""You can't grow enough food to live on for a whole year. That's why many people are leaving to work in other places," she said."

http://www.philpost.com/0302pages/rice0302.html