@article{Adamson:157080,
      recid = {157080},
      author = {Adamson, David},
      title = {Can Australia become the Food Bowl of Asia?},
      address = {2013},
      number = {1744-2016-140917},
      series = {Australian Public Policy Program},
      pages = {15},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {Knowledge decay is arguably the greatest threat facing  rural Australia. Knowledge decay allows us to ignore what  we have already learnt, allowing for the reinfestation of  bad policies. Thus just like a cockroach, a bad policy is  difficult to flush (Krugman 2011). In a world full of  zombie economics (Quiggin 2010) and the pursuit of a 5  second sound bite we have to examine the proposition of the  question. “Can Australia become the food bowl of Asia?” I  will retort it’s not about to where Australia exports nor  how much we export. Rather the question should be how can  we make Australian agriculture profitable? 
To examine this  alternative question, this essay will examine the following  three issues: should producers and researcher concentrate  on productivity or profit, how do we deal with risks and  uncertainties in a policy environment; and finally we  examine the logic of targeting Asia or the entire world, in  an attempt to negate future flushing.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/157080},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.157080},
}