Otsuka, K (2013) Food insecurity, income inequality, and the changing comparative advantage in world agriculture. Agricultural Economics, 44. pp. 1-12.
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Abstract
I would like to argue in this article that in the process of economic development in land-poor countries in Asia, agriculture faces three distinctly different problems: food insecurity, sectoral income inequality, and the declining food self-sufficiency associated with the declining comparative advantage in agriculture at the high-income stage. Massive imports of food grains to Asia, if they occur, will aggravate the world food shortage, which will have significant implications for the poverty incidence in the world. I argue that in order to avoid such a tragedy, Asia should expand farm size to reduce labor cost by adopting large-scale mechanization, sub-Saharan Africa should realize a green revolution in grain production, and Latin America should further expand its grain production capacity.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Agricultural Economics Postharvest Management > Food Technology |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr. SanatKumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2013 04:32 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jul 2013 04:32 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/agec.12046 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/10820 |
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