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I have contended for some years that the principal economic problem facing commercial agriculture is instability (Tweeten, 1989). It threatens not only farmers’ financial viability but also consumers’ food security, given consumer desire for stable food availability in the face of intermittently unstable food production.
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Tweeten, L. (2002). Trade, Uncertainty, and New Farm Programs. In: Moss, C.B., Rausser, G.C., Schmitz, A., Taylor, T.G., Zilberman, D. (eds) Agricultural Globalization Trade and the Environment. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1543-2_3
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