Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security

dc.creatorDíaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
dc.date2015-12-11
dc.date2024-08-01T02:49:55Z
dc.date2024-08-01T02:49:55Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:46:10Z
dc.descriptionThere is a heated debate among policy makers, civil society, and analysts about the impact of trade and trade policies on food security. While there have been several empirical reviews on these issues the controversy has not abated. This paper surveys possible reasons why the polemic continues and why it may be difficult to settle it unequivocally. The reasons are related to the different notions of trade, food and nutrition security, the variety of possible indicators for those concepts, the multiplicity of channels through which trade and food and nutrition security notions interact, the diversity of analytical and quantitative approaches utilized, and differences in values and conceptual priors about the operation of the world economy. The paper concludes with some reflections about what can be reasonably said about the potential impacts of trade on food security.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149774
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/114085
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298590
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/149782
dc.relationhttps://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/i5219e
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDíaz-Bonilla, Eugenio. 2015. Lost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1490. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/149774
dc.subjectnutrition security
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjecttrade
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectfood security
dc.titleLost in translation: The fractured conversation about trade and food security
dc.typeWorking Paper

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