Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46745 
Year of Publication: 
1985
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1985
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 227
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
The vagaries of nature and of world grain markets, causing domestic food production and food import prices to fluctuate, are commonly considered the major external sources of food insecurity in developing countries. The need for steady domestic food production, and for stable world grain prices or international assistance in meeting a fluctuating grain import bill, are accordingly emphasized by the authors. Food self-sufficiency and commodity reserves are also stressed, given barriers to trade. Recent events in Latin American and African countries seem to suggest that erratic capital flows and export earnings, supposedly caused by instabilities of world financial and world primary commodity markets, can be just as detrimental to the maintenance of appropriate food consumption levels. If these claims of additional exogenous sources are subtantiated, the priorities of a food security strategy might need to be reconsidered.
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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Digitized Version

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