Trade reforms and food security
Subtitle: country case studies and synthesis
By: edited by Harmon Thomas ; [Jamie Morrison, co-author of Part 1].
Contributors: Thomas, Harmon C.; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 615
ISBN-13: 9789251055335
Subjects: Food supply -- Developing countries -- Case studies.; Food supply -- Developing countries -- Statistics.; Agriculture and state.; Agriculture -- Economic aspects.; Free trade -- Developing countries.
Genres: Case studies.; Statistics.
Description: The linkage between trade-related policy reforms and food security is of vital concern to many developing countries. This volume summarizes the results of a study designed to show how trade and associated economic policy reforms have affected the agriculture sector and food security of farmers in a range of developing countries. The approach taken is to observe actual performance in fifteen countries that have undergone policy reform in the past few years, and to search for explanatory factors, rather than to project the presumed consequences of reforms through models of economic behaviour. The 15 countries selected are representative of different regions of the world, and different stages of development: Cameroon, Chile, China, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.