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Are there any examples of

Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 04:54:08 2020 No.12462888 View Reply Original Report

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nations that were historically famine prone that managed to permanently solve the problem through careful planning and technical means prior to modern food abundance?

If so, what are they and how did they do it?

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 04:57:52 No.12462894 Report

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>>12462888
exploiting the peasants then letting most of them starve was a tried and true strategy

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 07:38:29 No.12463203 Report

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>>12462888
Rome did it by plundering, before crop rotation farming in the nordic countries was very harsh, the nobles often took the grain and food and let alot of peasants starve. The early kievan rus practised torching the land wich allowed them to sustain their people in a cold climate

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 08:01:32 No.12463265 Report

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>>12462888
isn't that just everywhere that invented agriculture?

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 17:13:05 No.12464607 Report

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Most ancient civilisations were build along major rivers that had to be controlled in order to maintain a proper agricultural system, lest everything was washed away in floods.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Dec 2020 20:07:17 No.12465168 Report

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yet another thread immediately abandoned by OP on posting.
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