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Title: | Regional Trade and Food Security in SADC (Southern African Development Community) |
Author: | Maasdorp, Gavin |
Year: | 1998 |
Periodical: | Food Policy |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 6 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 505-518 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Southern Africa |
Subjects: | SADC food policy grain trade cereals Inter-African Relations Economics and Trade Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0306-9192(98)00058-X |
Abstract: | This paper addresses a number of pertinent questions on regional trade and food security in southern Africa. The questions focus on grain products: Should a country go it alone or should it belong to a regional trade bloc? Within the SADC region, should countries be content to be cereal importers? How can free trade be phased in? How can intra-SADC trade be expanded? Potentially sensitive agricultural products are listed and the sensitivity in grain milling and cereals is discussed in detail. The major conclusion is that trade in the region can contribute substantially to improved food security. There is also considerable scope for greater intraregional trade in grain and other food products, and for greater cross-border investment in agriculture and agroindustry. Bibliogr., note, sum. |