What is an APEC Food System? Leaders of APEC's 21 member governments are committed to achieving free and open trade and … progress has already been made towards those goals, but least so in the food sector. The latter needs to be addressed urgently … September 1998 that APEC leaders take joint action to develop a so-called APEC Food System to boost the food sector …

examines how that growth and associated structural changes are altering agricultural markets in particular and thereby food …-farm sectors on agricultural self-sufficiency and real food consumption per capita in Asia and elsewhere. The paper concludes by … drawing implications for policies that can address more efficiently Asia’s concerns about food security and rural …