Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173571 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
PIDS Discussion Paper Series No. 2016-50
Publisher: 
Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), Quezon City
Abstract: 
The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice. Since the 1960s, various government regimes have articulated strategies and executed actions to achieve this much-vaunted goal. It has been over half a century, but we have yet to realize this dream. At this point, looking at the hard facts and the numbers, the picture it paints is not pretty. Achieving rice self-sufficiency comes with a price, and let us take a sober look at what it really costs.
Subjects: 
Philippines
food security
agriculture
rice production
rice
rice self-sufficiency
farming
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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