The minister who expressed the fear that if the quality
of agricultural produce imported into Nigeria was not checked, a sort of biological warfare could also be launched against the country's agricultural sector.
By quantifying the impact
of international trade on ecosystem services, the research team, led by Assistant Professor Roman Carrasco from the Department
of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty
of Science, showed that tropical countries are severely underpricing the
agricultural commodities they
produce, and thus effectively subisidising consumption by
importing countries.