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If global food production is to keep up with the growth in food demand, the productivity of resources employed in agriculture needs to increase. That can happen by investing more in agricultural research, but that is expensive and involves decades to yield results. There is a far more immediate and lower cost way to enhance global food security sustainably, namely, by reforming policies that are distorting food prices and trade. While this has been tried and proven in some places over the past three decades, much more can be gained by encouraging such policy reform in places yet to start, and by cheering the process to completion in places where reform is still on-going. This chapter summarizes the rest of the book, which explains how.
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Anderson, K. (2016). Introduction and Summary. In: Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security. Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-46925-0_1
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