Food Security: A Stabilisation Problem for Developing Countries

Alberto Valdés
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Alberto Valdés: International Food Policy Research Institute

Chapter 8 in Structural Change, Economic Interdependence and World Development, 1987, pp 105-124 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Keywords: Food Security; Food Insecurity; Foreign Exchange; Export Price; Cereal Import (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-09117-1_8

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