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Producing All Food Locally and Limiting Imports

Countries should try to produce all the food for the population and imports as little food as possible.

To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Essay ideas: Producing All Food Locally and Limiting Imports

WhyThis is anOpinion essay — it asks whether you agree or disagree with a statement.

SoWe split the ideas intoReasons to agree(supports the statement)andReasons to disagree(argues against it).

Reasons to agree

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Reasons to disagree

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Response 01

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Essay · 296 words · 1 paragraph · 19 comments

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Response 01
Estimated band7.0/ 9

Overall assessment

The response supports greater domestic food production through relevant food-security, employment and quality arguments. Its signposting makes the intended sequence clear, but the single paragraph obscures that structure. The extent of agreement with complete self-sufficiency needs clarification, and several supporting claims need stronger causal explanation. Grammatical errors and awkward collocations also reduce precision.

TR

Task Response

The response favours domestic production and presents relevant food-security, employment and quality arguments. However, “many kinds of food” leaves the extent of agreement less precise than the proposal, and several causal links and generalisations need fuller explanation.

7.0
CC

Coherence and Cohesion

Ideas follow a recognisable sequence, marked by “Firstly”, “Secondly”, “Finally” and “In conclusion”. However, the entire response is presented as one paragraph, so the three reasons and conclusion need separate paragraphs to make the organisation visible.

7.0
LR

Lexical Resource

The response uses a sufficient range of topic-appropriate vocabulary such as 'food sufficiency', 'domestic production' and 'self-sufficient', with some less natural collocations like 'more food crisis' and 'food adequacy'.

7.0
GRA

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

A variety of sentence structures, including complex conditionals and relative clauses, is used with generally good control, despite recurring minor errors such as 'depends' and article omissions that do not impede meaning.

7.0

What to work on next

Clarify whether you favour full self-sufficiency or greater domestic production, separate the main reasons into paragraphs, and explain how each policy benefit would arise. Then check verb constructions and noun phrases.

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