Chapter 4


Chapter 4: Impact of Policy on Food Security

OBJECTIVES:

By the end of this chapter, participants will:

1. have an understanding of the causes of macro-economic imbalances and of the rationale
 behind as well as the approaches to stabilisation and structural adjustment policies,

2. be able to trace the main lines of impact of macro-economic and structural adjustment
 policies on the parameters determining aggregate national and household food security,

3. be aware of the implications of adjustment policies for the food situation and food
 security of poor and vulnerable groups.


TOPICS


1. The macroeconomy and food security

2. The impact of macroeconomic policy
 on food security: A framework for
 analysis

3.-8. Impacts of the various approaches to
 macro-economic and structural
 adjustment on the food economy and
 on food security

9. Assessing the overall impact of
 adjustment policies on food security


ACTIVITIES


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1. Tracing the effects
 parameter changes
 situation.


of economic
on the food


2. Tracing the main lines of impact of a
 typical set of adjustment policies on
 factors determining food production
 and demand, and on aggregate and
 household food security.

3. Analysis of agricultural pricing and
 marketing policies: objectives,
 approaches and effects on the food
 economy and on food security.


REFERENCES

FAO, World Food Summit Papers on relevant issues (please see References)
FAO, 1989, Effects of stabilization and structural adjustment programmes on food security,
 FAO Economic and Social Development Paper 89, Rome
FAO, 1992, Agricultural price policy: government and the market, Training Materials for
 Agricultural Planning 31, Rome
Norton, R., 1992, Integration of food and agricultural policy with macroeconomic policy:
 methodological consideration in a Latin American perspective, FAO Economic and
 Social Development Paper 111, Rome
Woodward, D., 1992, Debt, Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries, Vol. I & II,
 Save the Children, London