The World Food Crisis and the Strategies of Asian Rice Exporters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World Food Crisis and the Strategies of Asian Rice Exporters write by Shinʼichi Shigetomi. This book was released on 2011. The World Food Crisis and the Strategies of Asian Rice Exporters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Comprises case studies of India, Thailand and Vietnam. Describes the situation of rice production and trade, and the policy framework in each country.
International Trade and Food Security
International Trade and Food Security - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Trade and Food Security write by Michael Ewing-Chow. This book was released on 2016-01-29. International Trade and Food Security available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency. This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult for any single nation to guarantee adequate food production for itself. Through a collection of commissioned studies which draw upon the experience of leading experts and scholars in trade, investment, law, economics, and food policy, this book analyses the impact of this trend on the most essential crop in the Asian region - rice. It suggests that food security policy should be reconceptualised: from the national to the regional and even the global level. It also provides its own proposals as to how this new paradigm of collective food security should be understood and developed. The book calls for a new conversation in the region, acknowledging that the challenges we face are global and the solutions must be found in collective action. This state-of-the-art study will appeal to lawyers, economists and political scientists, as well as food security specialists by providing expert analyses and enlightening solutions for the future.
The Rice Crisis
The Rice Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rice Crisis write by David Dawe. This book was released on 2012-07-26. The Rice Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The recent escalation of world food prices – particularly for cereals - prompted mass public indignation and demonstrations in many countries, from the price of tortilla flour in Mexico to that of rice in the Philippines and pasta in Italy. The crisis has important implications for future government trade and food security policies, as countries re-evaluate their reliance on potentially more volatile world markets to augment domestic supplies of staple foods. This book examines how government policies caused and responded to soaring world prices in the particular case of rice, which is the world's most important source of calories for the poor. Comparable case studies of policy reactions in different countries, principally across Asia, but also including the USA, provide the understanding necessary to evaluate the impact of trade policy on the food security of poor farmers and consumers. They also provide important insights into the concerns of developing countries that are relevant for future international trade negotiations in key agricultural commodities. As a result, more appropriate policies can be put in place to ensure more stable food supplies in the future. Published with the Food and Agriculture (FAO) Organization of the United Nations
Food Security Strategies
Food Security Strategies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Food Security Strategies write by C. Peter Timmer. This book was released on 1997. Food Security Strategies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This publication reviews the recent literature on food systems and economic development and underlines their limitations. Simultaneously, it analyzes the Asian approach to food security and concludes that the lesson from East and Southeast Asia for achieving and maintaining food security can be summed up as a growth process stimulated by a dynamic rural economy leads to rapid poverty alleviation, which, in the context of public action to stabilize food prices, ensures food security.--Publisher's description.
Reflections on the Global Food Crisis
Reflections on the Global Food Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflections on the Global Food Crisis write by Derek Headey. This book was released on 2010. Reflections on the Global Food Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The dramatic surge in food prices from 2005 to 2008 seriously threatened the world's poor, who struggle to buy food even under normal circumstances, and led to protests and riots in the developing world. The crisis eventually receded, but such surges could recur unless steps are taken to prevent them. Using up-to-date information, the authors of Reflections on the Global Food Crisis identify the key causes of the food price surge, its consequences for global poverty, and the challenges involved in preventing another crisis. Breaking from many earlier interpretations, the authors conclude that the crisis was not primarily fostered by increased demand for meat products in rising economies such as China and India or by declines in agricultural yields or food stocks, or by futures market speculation. Instead, they attribute the rising food prices to a combination of rising energy prices, growing demand for biofuels, the U.S. dollar depreciation; and various trade shocks related to export restrictions, panic purchases and unfavorable weather. As part of their analysis, the authors also provide the first comprehensive review of both the macroeconomic and microeconomic consequences of the crisis, as well as a detailed comparison of the current crisis with the food price crisis of 1974. To prevent another crisis, the authors conclude that the global food system should be reformed through several key steps: make trade in agricultural commodities more free yet more secure; address long-term threats to agricultural productivity, such as climate change and resource degradation; scale up social protection in potentially food insecure countries; and encourage agricultural production in at least some of the countries now heavily dependent on food imports. Reflections on the Global Food Crisis will be a valuable resource for policymakers, development specialists, and others concerned with the world's poorest people.
