Is Long-Term Food Insecurity Inevitable in Asia

doi:10.1080/09512748.2014.968193

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Is Long-Term Food Insecurity Inevitable in Asia

dc.contributor.author	Cuesta, Jose
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-13T19:23:44Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-13T19:23:44Z
dc.date.issued	2014-10-29
dc.description.abstract	This article questions two widely accepted claims on long-term food insecurity in Asia, the world's (heterogeneous) region with the largest number of undernourished individuals. The first claim is that food production may not grow as fast as the pace of population growth in Asia, which will reach 5 billion by 2050. The second claim is that an unstoppable emergence of a middle class in Asia will dramatically change the composition of food demand. On the first claim, the region's contribution to high and volatile international food prices is well known, but Asia's potentially positive contributions toward future price uncertainty and productivity growth are much less cited. On the second claim, the changing composition of future food demand in the region will depend on the extent that poverty reduction effectively leads to middle class expansion, which it is not an automatic process, and its extent still remains to be seen. Past evidence teaches us that poverty reduction on its own will not do the job of eradicating hunger, nor will only increasing food production. The jury is still out, but doomsday predictions are not necessarily justified.	en
dc.identifier.citation	The Pacific Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/20532
dc.identifier.issn	0951-2748
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/20532
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Taylor and Francis
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	food security
dc.subject	agricultural production
dc.subject	poverty
dc.subject	middle class
dc.subject	crises
dc.title	Is Long-Term Food Insecurity Inevitable in Asia	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication
okr.date.disclosure	2016-04-29
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:09:11.220610Z
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Journal Article
okr.externalcontent	External Content
okr.globalpractice	Agriculture
okr.globalpractice	Poverty
okr.identifier.doi	10.1080/09512748.2014.968193
okr.journal.nbpages	611-627
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.region.administrative	East Asia and Pacific
okr.region.administrative	South Asia
okr.region.geographical	Asia
okr.relation.associatedurl	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09512748.2014.968193
okr.topic	Agriculture::Food Security
okr.unit	GPVDR - Poverty - GP
okr.volume	27(5)