The country of Avorare has many starving people Should you encourage the people to grow crops such as vegetables wheat and corn or is it better to encourage them to use the land to raise cattle fo?

Answer 1

It all depends on the land base of Avorare, whether the soil there is suitable for growing crops or instead for raising livestock, and what climate the country is in, whether it is hot and dry, warm and humid, cool and humid or cold and dry. Ideally it should be a balancing act of BOTH crops and livestock not just one or the other. Yes the fact that more pounds of grain can feed more people than livestock and less land is used per acre of crop land to feed more people than crops, but humans are not herbivores: they need meat too. A balancing act of both crops and livestock can and should be achieved, where the cattle can be grazed on land that is not suitable for crops and grazed on stubble that crops were grown on previously to add to nutritional levels in the soil. Excess grain that is not needed to feed people (since grain will be grown annually or bi-annually, depending on what climate Avorare is in) can be used to fatten up livestock for slaughter.