[username90]

I don't see how that is possible as most of these people are doing subsistence farming. They eat their economic output themselves, there is nobody to underpay them. On the contrary their main problem is that there isn't some large corporation there to enhance their productivity with heavy machinery and fertilizers in exchange for a fraction of the yields.

[Red_Leaves_Flyy]

The comment is not regards to subsistence farmers using rudimentary methods.

In regards to latter half of your comment. The value is robbed from them by not valuing their efforts fairly in comparison to the value added by the equipment used to scale the operation. Sure you can hyperfocus on the study's cohort but then what's the point of any discussion at all?