• Medientyp: E-Book; Bericht
  • Titel: Food (in)security and the price of rice self-sufficiency
  • Beteiligte: Briones, Roehlano M. [VerfasserIn]
  • Erschienen: Quezon City: Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), 2016
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Schlagwörter: agriculture ; farming ; rice self-sufficiency ; rice production ; Philippines ; food security ; rice
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  • Beschreibung: The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice. Since the 1960s, various government regimes have articulated strategies and executed actions to achieve this much-vaunted goal. It has been over half a century, but we have yet to realize this dream. At this point, looking at the hard facts and the numbers, the picture it paints is not pretty. Achieving rice self-sufficiency comes with a price, and let us take a sober look at what it really costs.
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