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    Re-examining policies for food security in Asia

    Anderson, Kym; Jha, Shikha; Nelgen, Signe; Strutt, Anna | April 2013
    Abstract
    In the wake of recent food price spikes, plus growing demands for food in emerging Asia and for biofuels in Europe and the United States, governments are re-examining their strategies for dealing with both short-term and long-term food security concerns. This paper argues that long-run trends in real agricultural prices have policy implications for food security that are at least as important as those related to short-lived spikes around trend prices. The paper therefore summarizes recent projections of markets to 2030 under various scenarios, and then reviews evidence on how trade policy restrictions typically are altered to insulate domestic markets from short-run fluctuations in international prices around their long-run trends. That provides a firm empirical basis for re-examining the effectiveness and efficiency of various policy options for ensuring food security in Asia and elsewhere. Those options include boosting agricultural productivity growth rates to deal with long-run concerns, and using more-appropriate domestic policy measures rather than trade policies to cope with price volatility
    Citation
    Anderson, Kym; Jha, Shikha; Nelgen, Signe; Strutt, Anna. 2013. Re-examining policies for food security in Asia. © Springer. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4304.
    ISSN
    1876-4517
    Keywords
    Sustainable agriculture
    Commercial agriculture
    Agricultural And Rural Development
    Asian Development Bank
    Water Resources Development
    Sustainable Development
    Agribusiness
    Agroindustry
    Agricultural institutes
    Agricultural development
    Joint projects
    Development models
    Industrial policy
    Food Supply
    Economic development
    New agricultural enterprises
    Cooperative agriculture
    Government policy
    Entrepreneurship
    Communication in rural development
    Development banks
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4304
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    Anderson, Kym
    Jha, Shikha
    Nelgen, Signe
    Strutt, Anna
    Theme
    Agriculture
    Development
     
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