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 …

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 …

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

The study aims to assess the impact of rising prices of rice and fuel on poverty in the Philippines. In particular, the … study confirm that the impact of increasing prices of rice and fuel vary across different groups of households depending on … gainers from the recent increases in the prices of rice and fuel. In response to higher prices, households adopted different …

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 …

Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and … productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production …

market. If the Philippines is to achieve sustained, stable rice supply at low prices and at the same time promote rice …Using a political economy perspective, this paper establishes the strong relationship between rice and politics and … explains recent developments in the Philippine rice landscape. Results of the analysis show that the price of rice has been a …

confined to the ASEAN plus 3 and to a broader set of tariff changes that covers all the trading partners of the Philippines …. The findings of the paper are as follows. First, the FTAAP is likely to benefit the Philippines in the form of higher … declines in the outputs of activities related to rice and corn. Second, the benefits from the FTAAP are likely to come more …