Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia

This book challenges policy makers who oversee the rice sector in Southeast Asia to reexamine deep-rooted precepts about their responsibilities. As an essential first step, it calls on them to redefine food security. Fixating on national self-suffi...

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Main Authors:	Alavi, Hamid R., Htenas, Aira, Kopicki, Ron, Shepherd, Andrew W., Clarete, Ramon
Format:	Publication
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank 2012
Subjects:	ADVERSE CONSEQUENCE ADVERSE EFFECTS AGGREGATE DEMAND AGRIBUSINESS AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY PRICES AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AGRICULTURAL INPUTS AGRICULTURAL MARKETS AGRICULTURAL POLICIES AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AGRICULTURAL SERVICES AGRICULTURE ANIMAL FEED ANIMAL PRODUCTS AQUACULTURE BANK LOANS BEEF CASSAVA CEREAL PRICES CEREALS CERTIFICATION STANDARDS CIMMYT COMMERCIAL FARMING COMMODITY COMMODITY PRICES COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE COMPETITIVENESS CONSUMER PRICES CONSUMERS CONTRACT FARMING CONTRACT FARMING ARRANGEMENTS CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENTS CORN CROP CROP PRODUCTION CROP YIELDS CROPS DAIRY DOMESTIC MARKET DOMESTIC MARKET PRICES DOMESTIC MARKETS E-COMMERCE ECONOMIC LIFE ECONOMIC RENTS ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIES OF SCALE ENERGY PRICES EXCHANGE RATES EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXPORT MARKET EXPORTS FAMINE FAO FARM FARMER FARMER ORGANIZATIONS FARMERS FARMING FARMING HOUSEHOLDS FARMS FERTILIZER FERTILIZER PRICES FOOD AVAILABILITY FOOD CHAIN FOOD CRISIS FOOD DISTRIBUTION FOOD EMERGENCY FOOD GRAINS FOOD POLICY FOOD POLICY RESEARCH FOOD PRICE STABILITY FOOD PRICES FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD PRODUCTS FOOD SAFETY FOOD SECURITY FOOD STAPLES FOOD SUPPLIES FOOD SUPPLY FOOD TRADE FOODS FOREIGN COMPETITION FREE TRADE GDP GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES GRAIN GRAIN PRICES GRAINS GREEN REVOLUTION GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HARVESTING HARVESTS HYBRID SEED HYBRID SEEDS IFPRI INEFFICIENCY INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS INNOVATION INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVENTORIES INVENTORY IRRI LAMB LAND USE LARGE MILLS LIVELIHOODS LOCAL MILLERS MAIZE MAIZE IMPORTS MAIZE MARKET MAIZE PRICES MAIZE PRODUCTION MAIZE RESEARCH MAIZE SECTOR MAIZE SUPPLY MARKET ACCESS MARKET CONDITIONS MARKET DEVELOPMENT MARKET PERFORMANCE MEAT MERCHANDISE MERCHANDISING MILLERS MILLING EQUIPMENT MILLING INDUSTRY MILLING SECTOR MILLS MONOPOLIES MONOPOLY NATIONAL FOOD SECURITY OILS AND FATS OPPORTUNITY COST PADDY POOR HOUSEHOLDS PORK POULTRY PRICE INDEX PRICE INDEXES PRICE SETTING PRICE STABILITY PRICE STABILIZATION PRICE SUPPORTS PRICE VOLATILITY PRIVATE MILLS PRODUCE PRODUCT QUALITY PRODUCTION COSTS PRODUCTION OF RICE PROFIT MAXIMIZATION REGIONAL MARKETS REGULATORY SYSTEMS RETAIL RETAILING RICE RICE MARKETING RICE MILLING RICE PRICE RICE PRICES RICE PROCUREMENT RICE PRODUCTION RICE RESEARCH RICE TRADE RUBBER SALE SALES SEED SEEDS SIDE EFFECTS SMALL MILLERS SMALL-SCALE FARMERS SOYBEAN SPREAD STATISTICAL ANALYSIS STOCKS SUGAR SUPERMARKET SUPERMARKETS SUPPLIERS SUPPLY CHAIN SUPPLY CHAINS TAX EXPENDITURES TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TRADE POLICY TRADE REFORMS WAREHOUSE WAREHOUSES WHEAT WHITE MAIZE WHOLESALERS WORLD MARKET WORLD MARKETS WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION WTO YELLOW MAIZE YIELDS
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Summary:	This book challenges policy makers who oversee the rice sector in Southeast Asia to reexamine deep-rooted precepts about their responsibilities. As an essential first step, it calls on them to redefine food security. Fixating on national self-sufficiency has been costly and counterproductive. In its stead, coordination and cooperation can both improve rice production at home and structure expanding regional trade. To enhance regional food security through quantitative and qualitative gains in rice production, policy makers cannot solely rely on government programs. They need to also enlist private investors both as entrepreneurs and as partners who can bring capital, energy, modern technology, and experienced management into sustained efforts to reduce losses and heighten efficiency in supply chains. For such investors and participants to enter vigorously into the rice sector from which they have long held back, they will need a number of incentives, among them a confidence that the regional market for rice will evolve toward a structured, liberalized market shielded from the unilateral government interventions that have distorted it in the past and continue to do so in the present. The study's findings make it clear that current rice sector policies are not achieving their desired goals. Its examination of the 2007-08 food crises found, in fact, that government policies and panicky responses were the primary factors behind soaring (and later diminishing) rice prices. Those policies vary, but they share a common premise: food security depends, first of all, on self-sufficiency in rice. That premise has driven government intervention for decades, and unpredictable government intervention, in turn, has been a significant factor in making the rice sector too risky to attract significant private investment. The transition that this study urges will be difficult and, of necessity, slow to gain momentum. Nevertheless, it is already beginning. The members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are working to liberalize trade in the region. The study is, in fact, intended to assist in implementing policy objectives outlined in the ASEAN Integrated Food Security (AIFS) framework and in the strategic plan of action on food security in the ASEAN Region 2009-2013, in which the heads of member states pledged to embrace food security as a matter of permanent and high priority.

Trusting Trade and the Private Sector for Food Security in Southeast Asia

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