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This article talks about how argentina's wheat exports have decreased greatly over the past few years. Since agriculture is a vital industry in Argentina's economy, a decrease in exports decreases their aggregate demand.

This article discusses the impact of low economic development in an exemplary LEDC, Kenya. It explains how freshwater is very scarce and how it has hurt the growth of agriculture in the country's poorest county, Turkana County, but also outlines how the discovery of new water reserves could possibly combat this. Unfortunately, though due to the underdeveloped infrastructure of the region, and the inefficient enterprise (in this case, the government), it could be difficult to realise a steady supply of water. Thus, a vicious cycle is formed, in which development increases at a snail's pace.

The Article talks about the negative externalities of unsustainable food production and suggests that the actual costs to society should be expressed in the price of those products that appear cheap but have been produced by methods which are negative for the environment. It thus describes these negative externalities as "subsidies payed by society".