It's ridiculous to entertain this question in a newsletter that calls itself "Agribusiness Matters". Nevertheless, can we hold this thorny question without necessarily answering it?
Thank you for this piece, I hope many others benefit from it. As for my two cents/ paise - why is it so hard to think of any work as sacred and yet a business? It should be common sense to understand that food is sacred, in the sense that it is foundational to our physical (and mental) well being. It is important that the process be treated with that importance and by extension, farmers be adequately incentivised and compensated to produce healthy, high quality food.
I went down a rabbit hole of agribusiness matters and ended here for some reason. But for exploring the grey area of where agriculture fits into an economy, this is a most excellent primer, raising the right questions while creating a substantive dialogue and also poking holes in common assumptions (such as it being as straightforward as being a business). This topic could be a really important book in itself!
Thank you for this piece, I hope many others benefit from it. As for my two cents/ paise - why is it so hard to think of any work as sacred and yet a business? It should be common sense to understand that food is sacred, in the sense that it is foundational to our physical (and mental) well being. It is important that the process be treated with that importance and by extension, farmers be adequately incentivised and compensated to produce healthy, high quality food.
I went down a rabbit hole of agribusiness matters and ended here for some reason. But for exploring the grey area of where agriculture fits into an economy, this is a most excellent primer, raising the right questions while creating a substantive dialogue and also poking holes in common assumptions (such as it being as straightforward as being a business). This topic could be a really important book in itself!
Yeah. Not many are able to see the greyness of this for some reason that I find quite surprising.