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Ratchaburi resort operators put in a very good lobbying effort I see.
 
Yes, the dependence on potatoes was down to the political/economic situation.

The farmers generally had a small area for growing veg for themselves. The most bang for their buck was to grow potatoes and maybe some other root vegetables like turnip or things that could be left in a the ground like cabbage. They might be able to graze a cow on commonage for milk. The milk was churned and the butter as noted above was sold for export. The liquid that was left is known as buttermilk and was eaten along with the potatoes.

Other elements - essentially all land was owned by absentee landlords, the poorer land was rented to tenant farmers as above, the better land was kept to be farmed for profit by their agents - this is where most of the exports came from. (Boycott being the most infamous agent after the famine). Other issues: rackrenting, subletting, subdivision of land, laissez-faire economic policy not wanting to interfere in markets, moralising?/judgement that it was our own fault.

Dependence on potatoes masked a lot of the problems while the population was growing as they provided sufficient nutrition.

The export of food under guard however is a hard one to get past.
 
Yeah, I think that should be enough.

Cats are some of the most disruptive species in NZ, up there with Australians. There have been calls to even outright ban them here – or at least euthanise the feral ones – since they kill so many native birds and animals. Of course, the idea of banning them entirely is not so popular since we are so dearly attached to them.

I think banning Australians would have a bad effect on your economy. There might also be objections against euthanizing feral ones, I'd assume.
 
That's definitely a very interesting map!
 
You can argue the merit for some of these (assumption: Soviet Union = Russia).

Spoiler list :
Yes, definitely:
- Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania 1939
- Romania 1940
- Hungary 1956
- Czechoslovakia 1968
- Georgia 2008
- Ukraine 2014

Yes, definitely, but with mitigating circumstances:
- Ukraine and Caucasus 1918 - 1920s
- Iran 1941
- Afghanistan 1979
- Moldova 1992
- Syria 2016

Yes, but better late than never...
- Japan 1945

Mutual aggression:
- Central Powers 1914
- Poland 1920
- Japan 1938
- China 1969

Cold War shenanigans, complicated:
- Korea 1950
- Indochina 1960s - 1970s
- Yemen 1962
- Angola 1975
- Ethiopia 1977

Civil war, doesn't count:
- Chechnya and Dagestan 1990s

No
- Bangladesh(!) 1972

Don't even know what this is about?
- China 1929, 1946, 1950
- Egypt 1962
- Syria 1967
- Lebanon 1982
- Tajikistan 1992


The thing is you don't even need to exaggerate, the stuff in the definites/Cold War shenanigan columns are already bad enough.
 
China 1929
It sounds like it's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_conflict_(1929)
China 1946
It may have something to do with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Manchuria (when the Soviets intervened against the Japanese in the late stages of WW2) and the fact that the Soviets handed Manchurian land and supplies to the Communist Party – instead of the Nationalists, "ally" be damned – to give them an upper hand in the coming civil war.
 
Probably the same that is going on in Albania (national narrative about increasing population), coupled with their very real risk of being a minority regardless.
One'd also suspect that the arab part of the population has significantly larger fertility inside Israel.
 
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