It is elementary that nations must be able to sustain their own populations through good times and bad.
Surplus-producing countries like Argentina and Vietnam, worried about feeding their own populations, placed restrictions on exports.
Jamaica found that exporting countries were holding on to food for their own populations.
All five of the post-Soviet states of Central Asia have their own populations of ethnic Russians.
More sinister still were reports of tech companies that sold software, hardware and know-how to help dictatorships spy on their own populations.
"But they had political issues in their own countries, their own populations weren't ready, they needed to go through a certain walk up to it.
But when it comes to combating unemployment, action from the G20 is 'only in our backyard' – focused on getting their own populations back to work.
Specifically, there are plenty of indications that China and India will soon become critically less able than they are now of adequately supporting their own populations.
Elephants struggle to reproduce and even survive in captive breeding facilities, and are struggling to maintain their own populations in their native habitat.
These leaders are copying each other's tactics, particularly in terms of dealing with the opposition and trying to bring their own populations on board.
As food prices have soared worldwide in recent months, many countries with a food surplus have imposed limits on exports to retain supplies for their own populations.
