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How I Learned to Stabilize Rice Prices, and Why: A Retrospective Essay
This paper for the 20th anniversary special issue of the Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development traces the evolution of my thinking on what to do about food price instability. Now that feeding the world is again front-page news, I am trying to figure out what pieces of my own thinking over the...Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024) -
New Dynamics in the World Rice Market
In the last four decades of the 20th century, the world rice market was highly unstable, with price volatility greater than that on world wheat and maize markets. In the 21st century, however, new dynamics (a thicker world rice market, more irrigation, milder export restrictions) have contributed to...Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024) -
Urban Agriculture and Food Security in Development Planning
With the world population anticipated to reach over nine billion in 2050, and the majority of whom will live in cities, feeding a predominantly urban population will pose additional challenges to a predominantly rural-based agrifood system. Further, with the focus of economic activity being centered...Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024) -
Youth Engagement in Transforming the Food System to Address Malnutrition in the Philippines
Unless the Philippine food system is made more resilient, the aspirations of AmBisyon Natin 2040 will remain elusive, hindering the country’s ability to achieve inclusive growth, eradicate poverty, and ensure the well-being of all Filipinos. Focused on the youth, this paper brings together...Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024) -
Unveiling Socioeconomic Factors Shaping Global Food Prices and Security: A Machine Learning Approach
Global concern over food prices and security has intensified due to armed conflicts such as the Russia–Ukraine war, the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change. Traditional analysis of global food prices and their associations with socioeconomic factors has relied on static linear...Volume 21 Issue No. 2 (December 2024) -
Back in the Soup: Now What?
This article for AJAD presents the outlook for the world rice market as of early September 2023. It builds on the author's AJAD article from a year ago (https://doi.org/10.37801/ajad2022.19.2.p1) and on multiple articles in the East Asia Forum (https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2023/). A year ago...Volume 20 Issue No. 2 (December 2023) -
Development of Smart Food Value Chain Intervention Models for the Milkfish Industry in Region 1, Philippines
Milkfish production is an important sector of the Philippine aquaculture industry. The Ilocos Region (Region 1), particularly the province of Pangasinan, is the country’s largest producer of milkfish. However, production and environmental constraints confront the milkfish industry, such as...Volume 20 Issue No. 1 (June 2023) -
Fisheries Management Areas in the West Philippine Sea and Their Heritage Values
Geopolitical issues pose a challenge to the holistic management of fisheries and associated ecosystems in two Philippine fisheries management areas (FMAs 5&6) encompassing the West Philippine Sea. One way to allay these issues is through a common values approach based on heritage. This paper...Volume 20 Issue No. 1 (June 2023) -
How to Manage a World Food Crisis: A Viewpoint
As this is written in mid-September 2022, the world is facing a potential food crisis worse than any since World War II. With a devastating war in Ukraine launched by Russia in late February 2022, a historic drought and heat wave in China, and an uneven monsoon in South Asia, food supplies from...Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022) -
Climate-Smart Villages in Southeast Asia: The Pivotal Role of Seed Systems in Rice-Based Landscapes
Given the aggravating nature of climate change impacts, rice farming will increasingly rely on improved resilience to climate variability and extremes. To this end, the climate-smart village (CSV) approach was developed to address specific challenges of smallholder farmers. Within Southeast Asia...Volume 19 Issue No. 1 (June 2022)
