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The P3 is based on work together in both the private and public sectors in the same country.
Such an open atmosphere created in Country-A provides equal opportunity and equal
conditions to all its local small and medium producers and neighbors producers in all aspects
of the trade, investment, and tourism. This is manifested in the design of universal and equitable
strategies for all local small, and medium producers are done efficiently.
In short, through P3, Country-A as a whole will have an improved food security program, but
a shared identity as a capable country to survive in case of a massive pandemic. This platform
demands the collaboration and coordination of industry and trade, exporters union (traditional
and non-traditional products), chambers of commerce, tourism promotion agencies, ministry
of agriculture, and ministry of foreign affairs in the same country.

The Environmental and Natural Resources Management Platform (P4)
The last platform, the environmental and natural resources management platform (P4), aims to
look for a solution to different problems that any country faces while trying to decrease
pollution and better manage natural resources through intensive controls institutionally and
legally. This module will improve the administrative procedures, legal framework, and
institutional organizations related to better management of pollution controls and pro-
environmental policies.

Considerations in the Application of NDEAS-Model
The application of NDEAS-Model is slightly varied by country. It is important to note that the
necessary step to take in the NDEAS-Model for integrating any domestic economy is to foster
local production reorganization to solve the structural differences of any country. In the case
of Country-A, it depends on the application of the NDEAS-Model four platforms geared
towards robust partial import substitution in strategic food security items and manufacturing
sectors in case of a massive pandemic. This is the first step towards helping local small and
large producers that do not have sufficient credit and training to compete in the domestic
market.

The reduction of import dependency is part of the strategic food security, and manufacturing
sector reorganization is the deciding factor for the priority step to take in the NDEAS-Model.
Any country with an excellent strategic sustainable food security plan with less import
dependency generates less national crisis consumption and more job creation under the
domestic level. In the case of a common massive pandemic disease, the success of any country
needs to seek a new flexible and sustainable production model, respectively. The NDEAS-
Model offers the implementation of its four platforms. On the other hand, for any country
whose imports are higher and exports are small, due to their little diversity of products and
services with low added value. Their priority should be to implement the partial import
substitution model than open trade. This is the step to be taken in any country to reduce risk in
case of massive pandemic diseases like COVID-19.

Conclusion

Through the NDEAS-Model, this research paper recognizes the importance of less dependency
on imports and national food security in the case of worldwide pandemics. The NDEAS-Model
is a showcase of how the negative impact of trade liberalization could be analyzed using the

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