The Economics of Global Food Security
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This article outlines a food security synthesis: that food insecurity traces to poverty, that poverty must be addressed by economic development, and that economic development flows from application of the standard model which is now mainstream economics. Food insecure countries do not follow the standard model; their policies for agriculture and other sectors deter development. Why don’t they follow a policy that could feed their people? Reasons lie in institutions such as government. Attitudes including culture in turn underlie many institutional failures to provide food security. Resource endowments and economic circumstances help to create institutions and culture, hence, causality in the food security synthesis is by no means strictly unidirectional.
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