Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127863 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
PIDS Discussion Paper Series No. 2004-38
Publisher: 
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Makati City
Abstract: 
Food security remains a major concern among the APEC member economies. A simple and crude exercise shows that the region collectively could supply each member economy’s demands for rice, maize and wheat. Thus, there is a potential role for enhanced intra-APEC agricultural trade to address food security issues. However, economies may be reluctant to abandon a policy of pursuing self-sufficiency because of “political sensitivities” and because of the uncertainties that trade is sometimes associated with. While tariffs and subsidies have been addressed, nontrade barriers such as sanitary and phyto-sanitary conditions are imposed on agricultural commodities. Hence, regional cooperation must also be pursued along other grounds such as institutional support and the dissemination of technological advancements. In addition, a collective definition of food security must be answered by the 21 member economies.
Subjects: 
agriculture sector
regional integration
regional cooperation
agricultural efficiency
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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