Food security and import substitution: major strategic objectives of contemporary agricultural policy

Strategic competition and optimal parallel import policy

In a two-country Hotelling type duopoly model of price competition, we show that parallel import (PI) policy can act as an instrument of strategic trade policy. The home firm’s profit is higher when it cannot price discriminate internationally if and only if the foreign market is sufficiently bigger than the domestic one. The key mechanism in the model is that the home firm’s incentive to keep ...

Performance Assessment and analysis of Specialized Nutrition and Food Security Working Group in Achiveing Strategic Goals of National Nutrition and Food Security Document in Iran

Performance Assessment and analysis of Specialized Nutrition and Food Security Working Group in Achiveing Strategic Goals of National Nutrition and Food Security Document in Iran Mona Pourghaderi1, Fatemeh Mohammadi-Nasrabadi2, Behzad Damari3*, Zahra Abdollahi4, Shiva Mafimoradi5,6, Sareh Edalati7, Nasrin Omidvar8** 1Ph.D. Candidate in Food and Nutrition Policy, Department of Community Nutriti...

Agricultural Aid and Food Security in Africa

This paper investigates the effects of agricultural aid on food security in African countries during the the 1990 to 2012 period. Defining food security as increases in agricultural productivity and controlling for a large number of covariates, we find that agricultural aid, at the aggregate level, aid to the agricultural sector has positive and statistically significant effect on food security...

The role of urban agriculture in increasing agricultural productivity and food security

Today, the world is facing several problems, including population growth, urbanization, food demand increasing, depletion of water resources, and environmental degradation. "Urban agriculture" as part of urban activities is an opportunity to make positive changes in the world food system and produce quality food. Urban agriculture is a new solution to deal with environmental, social, and econom...

Mycotoxins, a Major Challenge in Global Food Security