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7 articles found for keyword search: +structural +transformation

  • 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)

  • R.M. Briones’ Comment on “The Future of Rice in Asia: Public and Private Roles”

    Roehlano M. Briones
    Dr. Roehlano Briones (Philippine Institute for Development Studies [PIDS] and Brain Trust Inc.), a thought leader in rice policy, appreciates the depth and clarity of Dawe and Timmer’s insights in his commentary. Nonetheless, he calls for a fuller exploration of critical themes such as...
    Volume 22 Issue No. 1 (June 2025)

  • Rejoinder to Comments on “The Future of Rice in Asia: Public and Private Roles”

    David Dawe and C. Peter Timmer
    Dawe and Timmer responded to the insightful critiques by Briones and Wong, who each highlight important but distinct perspectives: Briones urges deeper analysis of structural transformation, price stabilization, and climate challenges, while Wong emphasizes practical insights from private sector...
    Volume 22 Issue No. 1 (June 2025)

  • The Future of Rice in Asia: Public and Private Roles

    David Dawe and C. Peter Timmer
    The role of rice in Asia has evolved but remains central to pro-poor growth and food security. This article offers reflections based on decades of engagement with the region’s rice economy, organized around six interlinked themes: rice research, rural infrastructure, structural transformation...
    Volume 22 Issue No. 1 (June 2025)

  • Agricultural Transformation for Small (Island and Developing) States

    Paul Teng and Jose Ma Luis Montesclaros
    Agriculture in the development literature has been postulated as providing impetus for urban industrialization through its role in capital accumulation. While large states with concomitant large export potential of agricultural surpluses may subscribe to this paradigm and may also allow growth of a...
    Volume 20 Issue No. 1 (June 2023)

  • Book Review | Food Security and Food Scarcity: Why Ending Hunger Is So Hard by Charles P. Timmer

    Mark W. Rosegrant
    Timmer provides an excellent review and synthesis of the challenges and solutions to reducing hunger and improving food security, importantly emphasizing the need to rely on markets together with government provision of public goods such as agricultural research and development (R&D) and rural...
    Volume 12 Issue No. 2 (December 2015)

  • Rural Poverty in Southeast Asia: Issues, Policies, and Challenges

    Arsenio M. Balisacan, Rosemarie G. Edillon, and Sharon Faye Piza
    Economic growth among Southeast Asian countries during the last 25 years has averaged at five percent per year and has been accompanied by a decline in the relative importance of agriculture in the national output and employment. The response of poverty to this growth and structural transformation...
    Volume 2 Issue No. 1&2 (December 2005)

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