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International Trade and Food Security - Exploring Collective Food Security in Asia (Hardcover)
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International Trade and Food Security - Exploring Collective Food Security in Asia (Hardcover)
Series: NUS Centre for International Law series
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If you care about food security in Asia and particularly rice and
world trade, buy this book. The best authors in the business
(legal, academic and private sector) have contributed to its
success with 12 treatises on core issues. I complement the editors
of this compendium, Michael Ewing-Chow and Melanie Vilarasau Slade,
for their intellectual courage in bringing these experts to
contribute to one book. The technical side of these issues have
been kept at a minimum wherever possible for the general reader.
Each chapter relates to the others and guides us to some
conclusions and a call to action.' - Milo Hamilton, Firstgrain,
US'This is a complete recipe for global food security as the most
credible way forward in a world of continuously uncertain food
supplies. Today the overall intact agricultural production
potential appears mainly threatened by location-specific climate
change challenges and by both national and international food
policy governance failures. Hence, the role of trade and of trade
rules is all the more important, as credibly emphasised by the
authors' consequent advocacy for a removal of food trade barriers
as part of a more coherent poverty strategy and towards collective
food security.' - Christian Haberli, Bern University, Switzerland
'Food security is one of the key challenges the world faces. The
demand for food will increase as our population goes up from 7
billion to 9 billion. Global warming and an increasingly erratic
weather pattern will have an impact on food production. It is in
this context that I welcome this important book. The editors have
rightly invited us to refocus our minds from self-sufficiency to
collective food security.' - Tommy Koh, Chairman of the Governing
Board Centre for International Law, National University of
Singapore Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our
time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of
the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the
crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of
self-sufficiency. This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an
adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing
volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and
increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult for any
single nation to guarantee adequate food production for itself.
Through a collection of commissioned studies which draw upon the
experience of leading experts and scholars in trade, investment,
law, economics, and food policy, this book analyses the impact of
this trend on the most essential crop in the Asian region rice. It
suggests that food security policy should be reconceptualised: from
the national to the regional and even the global level. It also
provides its own proposals as to how this new paradigm of
collective food security should be understood and developed. The
book calls for a new conversation in the region, acknowledging that
the challenges we face are global and the solutions must be found
in collective action. This state-of-the-art study will appeal to
lawyers, economists and political scientists, as well as trade and
food security specialists by providing expert analyses and
enlightening solutions for the future. Contributors: C. Boonekamp,
R.M. Briones, R. Clarete, D. Dixit, M. Ewing-Chow, L.A. Jackson, J.
Jackson Ewing, J. McVitty, E. Rogerson, J. Tijaja, C.P. Timmer, M.
Vilarasau Slade
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