• chaogomu@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    One small change, Market systems are prone to market failures. They’re also rather inefficient, because there needs to be inefficiencies or else there’s no profit.

    No, the best path to reducing pesticides and the over reliance on fertilizer is regulatory, with people on the ground checking compliance. Our food supply is too important to be left to the inefficiencies and corruption of “market solutions”

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      4 months ago

      You need to have a role for the market. Central planning is a demonstrably bad idea.

      But a heavily regulated market is the sweet spot.

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        4 months ago

        The sweet spot is in actually testing for, and enforcing regulations. Fund that part properly, and you’re most of the way there. It should also not need to be said that the testing and enforcement cannot be outsourced to some corporation, and cannot be self reported.