@article{PRADESHA:236029,
      recid = {236029},
      author = {PRADESHA, ANGGA and ROBINSON, SHERMAN},
      title = {CLIMATE CHANGE AND RICE SELF-SUFFICIENCY POLICY: Exploring  Adaptation Strategy through Agricultural Policy Reform in  the Philippines},
      address = {2016},
      number = {333-2016-14131},
      pages = {28},
      year = {2016},
      abstract = {The negative impact of climate change on agricultural  production, especially the staple crops could potentially  threaten food security in developing countries. While  targeting rice self-sufficiency is commonly perceived as  equal to attaining national food security in most Asian  countries, the policy that promotes this program is  susceptible to market distortions, especially when it  involves policy instruments like trade restriction and  price subsidy. This paper tries to explore the potential of  reforming rice self-sufficiency policy in the case of  Philippine, as a way to adapt to climate change by  improving market resiliency that benefits both producers  and consumers to mitigate the climate effect. We found that  the rice program has not only diverting the resources to  low-value added crops that reduces potential income of  farmers under climate change effect, but it also hinders  the structural transformation process by absorbing  financial resources that could have been invested in more  productive sectors. We proposed two alternative second best  policies by providing cash transfers to the vulnerable  households and combining it with rice price subsidy given  the political importance of rice farmers in the country.  Both alternative policies could improve not only economic  growth and food security indicators, but also slightly  reduce national income inequality, which overall improves  the country capacity in mitigating the climate change  challenges.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/236029},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.236029},
}