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  • How I Learned to Stabilize Rice Prices, and Why: A Retrospective Essay

    C. Peter Timmer
    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)

  • Back in the Soup: Now What?

    C. Peter Timmer
    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)

  • How to Manage a World Food Crisis: A Viewpoint

    C. Peter Timmer
    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)

  • Structural Transformation, the Changing Role of Rice, and Food Security in Asia: Small Farmers and Modern Supply Chains

    C. Peter Timmer
    Food security is not a viable social objective unless it is also a profitable undertaking for input suppliers, farmers, and marketers of output. Consumers must then be able to afford to purchase food, secure in the knowledge that it is safe and nutritious (Reardon and Timmer 2007). Achieving food...
    Volume 9 Issue No. 1 (June 2012)

  • International Best Practice in Food Policy: Reflections on Food Policy Analysis

    C. Peter Timmer
    It has been more than 25 years since Food Policy Analysis (Timmer et al. 1983) was published, and more than 30 years since the initial outline for the book was circulated among the authors. It is fair to say that the volume has been very influential in the way food policy issues have been looked at...
    Volume 7 Issue No. 1 (June 2010)

  • Agriculture and Pro-Poor Growth: An Asian Perspective

    C. Peter Timmer
    Imagine a region of the world where all food and agricultural products are sourced from international markets, and domestic agricultural sectors have disappeared. This "world without agriculture" is not imaginary. For many of the world's poorest countries, especially in Africa, a future without...
    Volume 5 Issue No. 1 (June 2008)

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