Food Security Papers and Briefing Materials

Food Security, Trade and Agricultural Commodity Policy (pdf)
Paper by Daniel A. Sumner presented at the symposium "Challenging the Agricultural Economics Paradigm," Columbus, Ohio, September 10, 2000.

Food Security and Food Assistance Programs (pdf)
Draft chapter by Christopher B. Barrett in Bruce L. Gardner and Gordon C. Rausser, eds, Handbook of Agricultural Economics (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science, forthcoming).

Value of Improved Data for Agricultural Commodity Policy Analysis, with Emphasis on Food Security (pdf)
Revised paper from a seminar presented by Daniel A. Sumner at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, September 4, 2000.

Facts, Trends and Issues of Open Markets and Food Security (pdf)
Paper presented by D. Gale Johnson at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Workshop on Food Security, Berlin, August, 2000.

Agricultural R&D, Technological Change, and Food Security (pdf)
Paper presented by Julian M. Alston at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Workshop on Food Security, Berlin, August, 2000. Also available in pdf format are slides from his presentation.

Evaluating Government Policy for Food Security: Indonesia (pdf)
Slides from the presentation by Rick Barichello to the International Association of Agricultural Economists Workshop on Food Security, Berlin, August, 2000.

Agricultural Trade Policy and Food Security (pdf)
Paper presented by Daniel A. Sumner at the International Association of Agricultural Economists Workshop on Food Security, Berlin, August, 2000.

Open Markets and Food Security (html)
Paper presented by Shu Geng at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C., February, 2000.

Rice: Why it Deserves Special Attention (html)
Paper presented by Ronald P. Cantrell at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C., February, 2000.

Are Open Food Systems Compatible with a Sustainable Agriculture? (html)
Paper presented by Dennis Keeney at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C., February, 2000.

Trade Liberalization and China’s Food Economy in the 21^st Century:
Implications to China’s National Food Security (html)
Paper presented by Jikun Huang, Chunlai Chen, Scott Rozelle, and Francis Tuan at the meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C., February, 2000.

References (pdf)
This is a partial list of some mainly recent economic references to the huge food security literature.  Following citations form the papers listed here and in the papers listed in this site should allow the user to track much of the important economics literature on food security.