several market distortions and mounting fiscal costs. Wheat and rice supply strongly and significantly respond to the minimum … rice they turned out to be insignificant. Rice consumption turned out to be strongly influenced by distribution of … subsidised rice, which can be linked to high coverage and subsidy under the public distribution system (PDS). In the case of …

This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement …

This paper attempts to analyse the current global crisis in the availability and prices of rice by drawing upon the … long-term developments in the rice market. The instability and thinness in the world rice markets are shown to be mainly …

The world rice market was aflame last spring and for several months it looked as if the trading edifice that had … both innocent bystanders (low-income rice importers as far away as Africa and Latin America) and, ultimately, poor rice … seriously undermined by the actions of decision makers in several key Asian rice exporting and importing countries. In …