NDLI: Re-examining policies for food security in Asia

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Anderson, Kym Jha, Shikha Nelgen, Signe Strutt, Anna
Copyright Year	2012
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.
Starting Page	195
Ending Page	215
Page Count	21
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18764517
Journal	Food Security
Volume Number	5
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	18764525
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-12-29
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Food price volatility Long-term food price trends Asian economic growth and structural changes Per capita food consumption Agriculture Food Science Social Policy Plant Sciences Environment Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Development Food Science Agronomy and Crop Science

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