| There is often an array of benefits. Following on your example, if you buy seed from the local seed & feed, you : - build resilience, for example if a global pandemic prevents far-reaching import-export - are less subject to geopolitics - money invested have a higher chance to stay in the local economy : the owner of the local seed & feed may buy its vegetables from you - create local jobs : this seed & feed owner may be able to create jobs for people - overall avoid the lock-in that you can have being tied to XYZ megacorp, for example if they now decide to only sell you seed that will grow with their newly branded feed - preserve local folklore : maybe there is a kind of seed that grows really well on your soil, but not so much in the others, so XYZ has decided to discontinue it because the market is too small to be profitable |