The Rice Liberalization Act (RA 11203), signed last February 2019, reverses decades-long placing quantitative … restrictions on rice importation administered by the National Food Authority. The Act goes further by dismantling interventionist … policy in the rice industry by divesting the Authority of its regulatory powers. The policy has been controversial, with some …

In The Nigerian Rice Economy the authors assess three options for reducing this dependency - tariffs and other trade … policies; increasing domestic rice production; and improving post-harvest rice processing and marketing - and identify improved …, and electricity), and rice milling technologies. …

on beef and long grain white rice as well as certain provisions of Mexico’s Foreign Trade Act and its Federal Code of …

The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice … the numbers, the picture it paints is not pretty. Achieving rice self-sufficiency comes with a price, and let us take a …