Author : Timmer, C. Peter
Food security is not a viable social objective unless it is also a profitable undertaking for input suppliers, farmers, and marketers of output. Consumers must then be able to afford to purchase food, secure in the knowledge that it is safe and nutritious (Reardon and Timmer 2007). Achieving food security within these constraints of a complex economic system is a challenge because both poor consumers and small farmers must be effective participants.
Subject:
structural transformation; rice; food security; small farmers; supply chains; production; consumption; policy implications; Asia
Material : serials
Serial Title : Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development (AJAD)
Publisher : SEARCA
Publication Date : 2012
ISSN : 1656-4383 (print); 2599-3879 (online)
Internet Resource: https://ajad.searca.org/article?p=382
PR-AS
2012
SEARCA AJAD 2012 9-1-2
SEARCA Library
Printed; electronic