For the Philippines, quantitative policy analysis should incorporate regional differences in welfare and economic …

The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice … the numbers, the picture it paints is not pretty. Achieving rice self-sufficiency comes with a price, and let us take a …

This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing … of paddy rice to procure from farmers to be able to defend its support price; how much volume of rice to maintain in … order to achieve stability in the supply and consumer price, and; how much volume of rice, as well as when is the best time …

In the Philippines, importation has remained as one of the most feasible options for the government to meet the growing … demand for rice. It is thus imperative for the government to develop a strategy that would ensure adequate supply and minimum … importation costs. One of the critical factors in import decisionmaking is rice production. The Inter-Agency Committee on Rice and …

Recently, the agricultural sector in the Philippines has enjoyed robust growth driven by rapid price increases in key … subsectors, namely, rubber, sugarcane, and coconut. The largest subsectors, however, namely, rice and corn, relatively …

One of the goals of the current administration is to achieve food security and food selfsufficiency in rice by 2016 … continue its efforts in increasing rice productivity to achieve food self-sufficiency, or should it focus instead on increasing … revealed that the Philippines is still far from being food secure. At the macro level, the food-trade balance showed that food …