Exploring transformational adaptation strategy through agricultural policy reform in the Philippines

IF 5.6 1区农林科学 Q1 FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Food Security Pub Date : 2022-06-21 DOI:10.1007/s12571-022-01299-4

Angga Pradesha, Sherman Robinson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Nicostrato Perez, Timothy S. Thomas

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Abstract

The Philippines is much more prone to climate change effects than many other countries. The potential impact on the agriculture sector is of particular concern, given its vital role in the economy and for vulnerable households. This study proposes a new approach for adaptation strategies by exploring policy reform in agriculture as a transformative way to help economic agents adapt to climate change. We specifically explore the current rice reform policy currently pursued by the government through the abolishment of rice quota program. We found this reform could help transform the agricultural and economic system by allowing scarce resources move from low to high productivity sector thus increase country’s adaptive capacity. However, the process entails a welfare loss to certain agents, but adding government intervention could act as the second-best policy and become a transition pathway before the whole system transform to reach the optimal efficiency point when the intervention program is eventually phased out.

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通过菲律宾农业政策改革探索转型适应战略

菲律宾比其他许多国家更容易受到气候变化的影响。考虑到农业部门在经济和脆弱家庭中的重要作用，对农业部门的潜在影响尤其令人关切。本研究通过探索农业政策改革作为帮助经济主体适应气候变化的变革性方式，提出了适应战略的新途径。我们具体探讨了目前政府通过取消大米配额制推行的大米改革政策。我们发现，这一改革可以通过允许稀缺资源从低生产率部门转移到高生产率部门，从而提高国家的适应能力，从而有助于改变农业和经济体系。然而，这一过程会给某些主体带来福利损失，但增加政府干预可以作为次优政策，并成为整个系统在干预计划最终被淘汰时向最优效率点转变之前的过渡途径。

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Food Security FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY-

CiteScore

14.00

自引率

6.00%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Food Security is a wide audience, interdisciplinary, international journal dedicated to the procurement, access (economic and physical), and quality of food, in all its dimensions. Scales range from the individual to communities, and to the world food system. We strive to publish high-quality scientific articles, where quality includes, but is not limited to, the quality and clarity of text, and the validity of methods and approaches. Food Security is the initiative of a distinguished international group of scientists from different disciplines who hold a deep concern for the challenge of global food security, together with a vision of the power of shared knowledge as a means of meeting that challenge. To address the challenge of global food security, the journal seeks to address the constraints - physical, biological and socio-economic - which not only limit food production but also the ability of people to access a healthy diet. From this perspective, the journal covers the following areas: Global food needs: the mismatch between population and the ability to provide adequate nutrition Global food potential and global food production Natural constraints to satisfying global food needs: § Climate, climate variability, and climate change § Desertification and flooding § Natural disasters § Soils, soil quality and threats to soils, edaphic and other abiotic constraints to production § Biotic constraints to production, pathogens, pests, and weeds in their effects on sustainable production The sociological contexts of food production, access, quality, and consumption. Nutrition, food quality and food safety. Socio-political factors that impinge on the ability to satisfy global food needs: § Land, agricultural and food policy § International relations and trade § Access to food § Financial policy § Wars and ethnic unrest Research policies and priorities to ensure food security in its various dimensions.