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Food Policy for Developing Countries: Case Studies
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Case studies are broken into 9 topics:
- Human Health and Nutrition Policies
- Food Security, Consumption and Demand Policies
- Poverty Alleviation Policies
- Domestic Market Policies
- Food Production and Supply Policies
- Natural Resource Management Policies
- Governance, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Policies
- Trade and Globalization Policies
- Ethical Aspects of Food Systems
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Sustainable Development of Agro-Industrial Sector and Food Security of the Kyrgyz Republic in the Process of Integration into the Eurasian Economic Union
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2016)The integration of the Kyrgyz Republic into the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will permit the country to most optimally combine the diversity of natural, economic, intellectual, and other resources into a single system. ... -
Miami Rice in Haiti: Virtue or Vice?
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2011)Critics of free trade often use Haiti as a poster child for failed trade liberalization policies. In 2010, 15 years after the second round of trade liberalization in Haiti, U.S. President Bill Clinton, who was instrumental ... -
Tariff Escalation in World Agricultural Trade
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)Tariff escalation, a common practice in international commodity trade, refers to a situation where tariffs are zero or low on primary products and increase, or escalate, as products undergo processing. It causes the price ... -
Vietnam's Aquaculture Trade: Food Safety and Sanitation Issues
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2010)Vietnam's rapidly increasing seafood exports have made a significant contribution to the country's economic development over the past few years, largely as a result of vastly increased production from aquaculture. Currently, ... -
Meeting Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Standards: What Can China Do?
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)It is widely recognized that rising sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards have created numerous obstacles to the international exchange of agricultural commodities. The issue is of particular importance for developing ... -
Preference Erosion, the Doha Round, and African LDCs
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)African least-developed countries (ALDCs) have enjoyed preferential treatment in exporting their agricultural products to developed countries. Reductions of agricultural trade barriers on a mostfavored nation (MFN) basis ... -
The Coffee Crisis: Is Fair Trade the Solution?
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)Coffee is an important crop widely grown in the developing world. The economies of some countries, particularly those in Central America and parts of Africa, are highly dependent on coffee as a source of both national ... -
The Textile and Clothing Agreements
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)Demand for textiles and clothing (T&C) has been rising quickly in the developed world (the European Union and United States), and it is forecast to grow further in the future. At the same time, especially during the past ... -
Trade Liberalization in South Korea's Rice Sector: Some Policy Implications
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)The tension between the liberalizing agenda of the World Trade Organzation (WTO) and the policies of industrial-country members of the WTO has been framed as a battle between developed countries and less-developed countries. ... -
The Impact of U.S. Subsidies on West African Cotton Production
(CUL Initiatives in Publishing (CIP), 2007)Cotton subsidies and their impact on international prices and on the livelihoods of poor African cotton farmers have become a central focus of the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. ...
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