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Food Security: A Stabilisation Problem for Developing Countries

In: Structural Change, Economic Interdependence and World Development

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  • Alberto Valdés

    (International Food Policy Research Institute)

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Food security has become a central explicit policy goal for most LDCs within the last decade. It is an important politically sensitive issue for governments. This growing concern about food insecurity can be attributed to the combination of several interrelated factors, which include an explicit commitment by governments to stabilise domestic prices and consumption of food, rapid urbanisation and related changes in food consumption patterns, the increased dependence of LDCs on imported cereals, and the increasing volatility of export prices of cereals.

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  • Alberto Valdés, 1987. "Food Security: A Stabilisation Problem for Developing Countries," International Economic Association Series, in: Silvio Borner & Alwyn Taylor (ed.), Structural Change, Economic Interdependence and World Development, chapter 8, pages 105-124, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-09117-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-09117-1_8
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