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Such topic cannot be answered away from the multinational differences of the combination of food security and trade . This is due to the fact that some countries' food security policies are different from other countries. In other words, trade & food security have different set ups in different countries. The small farmer, for example, is always in bad terms with any type of trade except that type of modest trade in the small local market. But the middle income farmers, are in a better position with trade of their products within their national economies. In some countries they enjoy some protection or some price subsidies. In some occasions, farmers sell their products to cooperatives which in turn sell those products to big traders by special terms such as traders help in some inputs, trainings or else depending on cost - benefit exchanges.
Some countries, however, perform agriculture trades in big quantities to other countries return of some big projects or enterprises. For instance, Sudan gives agriculture products to Gulf states in return of provision of some infrastructures.
This topic needs a lot of discussions and I hope we receive more contributions.
Sally Bamurrah
Sally Bamurrah