Stratégie alimentaire et développement rural
Food policy and rural development. Economic growth does not necessarily come along with development ; even less with food security. Trade expansion bound to economic growth politics isolates populations that have no access to the market and makes the farmers highly dependent to the variations of yie...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Presses Agronomiques de Gembloux
1991-01-01
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| Series: | Tropicultura |
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| Online Access: | http://www.tropicultura.org/text/v9n4/159.pdf |
| Summary: | Food policy and rural development. Economic growth does not necessarily come along with development ; even less with food security. Trade expansion bound to economic growth politics isolates populations that have no access to the market and makes the farmers highly dependent to the variations of yields and prices of agricultural products. Equilibrium between supply and demand of agricultural products observed at the world level is generally not confirmed on the domestic market. Combined effects of population and GNP growth produce as a consequence important inequalities in the food distribution at the regional level. Politics of adjustment with as object increasing economic growth within the framework of free-trade strategy risk to further emphasize householdes disparities. A better welfare distribution can be obtained at regional level by carrying out compensating measures which can only be considered with government assistance. It would be the best way to reconcile economic growth and food security. |
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| ISSN: | 0771-3312 |