Consequences of a food security strategy for economic welfare, income distribution and land degradation: the Philippine case

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dc.contributor.authorCoxhead, Ianen
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialThe Philippinesen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T18:55:06Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T18:55:06Zen
dc.date.issued2000en
dc.descriptionMetadata only recorden
dc.description.abstractLike many developing countries, the Philippines pursues a food security strategy in which self-sufficiency and price stabilization feature prominently. In addition to their widely debated welfare effects, food policies based on price and trade restrictions may also accelerate land degradation by promoting expansion of relatively erosive grain crops. The paper explores the welfare and environmental implications of food policies, first with a simple heuristic model, then with an applied general equilibrium model. Comparing market restrictions with technical progress as alternative food policy strategies, it is found that the former increase land degradation and reduce welfare; moreover, anti-poverty and distributional benefits often claimed for such interventions may be illusory [CAB Abstracts 2000].en
dc.format.mimetypetext/plainen
dc.identifier827en
dc.identifier270en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Development 28(1): 111-128.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0305-750X(99)00117-5en
dc.identifier.issn0305-750Xen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/65743en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherElsevier Science Ltd.en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.en
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectRural developmenten
dc.subjectIncome generationen
dc.subjectFood strategyen
dc.subjectFood securityen
dc.subjectModelingen
dc.subjectEconomic impactsen
dc.subjectEnvironmental degradationen
dc.subjectIncomeen
dc.subjectIncome distributionen
dc.subjectFood policyen
dc.subjectSimulation modelingen
dc.subjectPrice stabilizationen
dc.subjectSelf-sufficiencyen
dc.subjectTechnical progressen
dc.subjectSocial welfareen
dc.subjectGovernanceen
dc.titleConsequences of a food security strategy for economic welfare, income distribution and land degradation: the Philippine caseen
dc.typeAbstracten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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