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Nouve, Kofi; Staatz, John M.. |
This paper examines the environment within which West African countries are designing their regional self-reliance food security strategy following the Uruguay Round Agreements on Agriculture (URAA). The self-reliance strategy combines regionally-coordinated domestic food production with food imports. Three aspects of the URAA-food security linkages were emphasized in this study. First, while the regional model may increase efficiency in regional food production and distribution systems, it may also restrain the flexibility and/or the effectiveness of using tariff protection when needed. Second, a formal test of structural change in food availability suggests that there have been increases in average per capita food supply in the post-URAA period. Third,... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Food Security and Poverty. |
Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11746 |
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