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 …

The Rice Liberalization Act (RA 11203), signed last February 2019, reverses decades-long placing quantitative … restrictions on rice importation administered by the National Food Authority. The Act goes further by dismantling interventionist … policy in the rice industry by divesting the Authority of its regulatory powers. The policy has been controversial, with some …

1. The Evolution of Rice Farming in the Lower Mekong Basin -- 2. The Commercialisation of Rice Farming in Northeast … Thailand -- 3. Divergent Pathways of Rice Farming in Ubon Ratchathani Province -- 4. Farmer Organizations in Ubon Ratchathani … Province -- 5. From Subsistence to Commercial Rice Farming in Laos -- 6. Adapting the Green Revolution for Laos -- 7. Rainfed …

This paper presents a literature-informed and data-driven critique of the Rice Tariffication policy in the Philippines …, in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic that has already disrupted rice supplies and hiked rice prices globally. Gaps in the … surveyed literature are complemented by discussing the rationale of rice self-sufficiency in an increasingly volatile …

, however, one may analyze the effects of variable climate on crop yields. We study the case of the Philippines, which remains … rice prices, we analyze how sensitive rice supply is to climate factors …