> Food is essential for live, you have no food, you die. If you or your children starve you will pay anything for food. Society's stability depend of the supply and price of food.
That doesn't mean your country has to grow it.
A much better solution for individual food security is food stamps.
If your country has problems with a temporary lack of food one of the easiest things to do is to import more and if nesacery subsidize it. Famines tend to come from broken economic and political systems like imperial UK in Ireland and communist USSR, they both refused to import more food during a famine and in fact exported a lot food
Only so long as you CAN import it. Which means you need to ask from where - which gets into a large number of political issues. You may be forced to overlook something evil (slave labor), or even contribute to evil (pay bribes to someone who is turning around and using those bribes to fund an army that is planning to attack you).
Just because the world is currently politically stable for those reading this does not mean that will continue.
That doesn't mean your country has to grow it. A much better solution for individual food security is food stamps.
If your country has problems with a temporary lack of food one of the easiest things to do is to import more and if nesacery subsidize it. Famines tend to come from broken economic and political systems like imperial UK in Ireland and communist USSR, they both refused to import more food during a famine and in fact exported a lot food