Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security
There is a heated debate among policy makers, civil society, and analysts about the impact of trade and trade policies on food security. While there have been several empirical reviews on these issues the controversy has not abated. This paper surveys possible reasons why the polemic continues and w...
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| description | There is a heated debate among policy makers, civil society, and analysts about the impact of trade and trade policies on food security. While there have been several empirical reviews on these issues the controversy has not abated. This paper surveys possible reasons why the polemic continues and why it may be difficult to settle it unequivocally. The reasons are related to the different notions of trade, food and nutrition security, the variety of possible indicators for those concepts, the multiplicity of channels through which trade and food and nutrition security notions interact, the diversity of analytical and quantitative approaches utilized, and differences in values and conceptual priors about the operation of the world economy. The paper concludes with some reflections about what can be reasonably said about the potential impacts of trade on food security. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1497742025-11-06T07:26:02Z Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio nutrition security gender trade developing countries food security There is a heated debate among policy makers, civil society, and analysts about the impact of trade and trade policies on food security. While there have been several empirical reviews on these issues the controversy has not abated. This paper surveys possible reasons why the polemic continues and why it may be difficult to settle it unequivocally. The reasons are related to the different notions of trade, food and nutrition security, the variety of possible indicators for those concepts, the multiplicity of channels through which trade and food and nutrition security notions interact, the diversity of analytical and quantitative approaches utilized, and differences in values and conceptual priors about the operation of the world economy. The paper concludes with some reflections about what can be reasonably said about the potential impacts of trade on food security. 2015-12-11 2024-08-01T02:49:55Z 2024-08-01T02:49:55Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149774 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298590 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149782 https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/i5219e Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio. 2015. Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1490. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149774 |
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