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    Revisiting RP's Hybrid Rice Program

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2005
    The United Nations General Assembly declared 2004 the International Year of the Rice (IYR). The IYR is a venue to promote improved production and development of sustainable rice-based systems that will contribute to environmental conservation and a better life for present and future generations.
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    Food policy: Its role in price stability and food security

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 1997
    Due to the increase in prices of basic agricultural commodities in 1995, food price stability and food security emerged as a major policy concern in the Philippines. This paper argues that the sharp increases in prices of rice; largely the choice and management of policy instrument have caused corn and sugar.
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    Food outlook: biannual report on global food markets: FAO/UNDP

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013
    Food commodity markets are set to be more balanced in 2013/14, in particular cereals. The global food import bill is forecast to reach USD 1.09 trillion in 2013, 13 percent below the record of 2011 but close to the 2012 estimate, as higher bills for fish and livestock products are anticipated to offset lower expenditures on most other commodities, especially sugar.
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    Revisiting the global food crisis: magnitude, causes, impact and policy options

    Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2010
    The brief period of the 21st century has been marked by a drastic intensification of the global food crisis. The phenomenal surge in fuel and food prices followed by the on-going economic crisis have worked in tandem to increasingly deprive the poor across the world, particularly in the Global South, from their fundamental right to food.
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    Rice self-sufficiency: is it feasible?

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Rice self-sufficiency has long captivated public imagination in the Philippines. This Policy Note assesses whether the rice self-sufficiency target can be attained and sustained at reasonable cost. The assessment is based on two approaches: first is comparison with past trends; second is comparison with projections of demand and supply.
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    Policy coordination for food security: the case of the ASEAN Rice Trade Forum

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2012
    Rice is the most important staple crop in Asia. Rice is regarded not merely as a source of food and livelihood, but also a political commodity and barometer of state legitimacy. Intervention in rice markets is therefore the status quo.
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    The differentiated effects of food price spikes on poverty in Uganda

    AgEcon Search, 2012
    The price spike of 2006-08 set off alarm bells that millions of poor households would find themselves pushed below the poverty line or pushed further below it as a result of these higher prices.
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    Trade and environment briefings: export restrictions

    International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2012
    Export restrictions are implemented nowadays with the aim of achieving a number of goals, such as food security, industrial development, environmental protection and natural resource conservation. Nevertheless, the current paper brings about a rethinking of the needs and policy objectives behind such measures.The document presents the following findings:
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    Liberalizing agricultural trade and developing countries

    Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002
    Agriculture has been a special case in which trade liberalisation has not progressed since a considerable period, while subsidisation and protection of agriculture remain the norm in developed countries. This paper reflects the outcome of a conference dedicated for liberalising agricultural trade and developmental concerns of low-income economies.
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    Reforming agricultural trade for developing countries: volume two: quantifying the impact of multilateral trade reform

    2007
    Among the many reasons that agricultural trade reforms are important, two stand out: the importance of agriculture in developing countries and the slow growth of agricultural trade from developing countries to developed countries.

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