Plenary paper 1:European agriculture, international markets and LDC growth and food security
研究了欧共体农业政策对世界农产品市场的影响，指出其压低和 destabilize 国际价格，对低收入粮食进口国有利有弊，并建议设立粮食保险基金改善全球粮食安全。
The EC has a significant impact on world agricultural markets because of its size. Protective CAP policies have tended to depress and destabilize world market prices. The empirical evidence reviewed suggests that these effects are significant, and that developing countries are affected, albeit not as much as developed ones. However, least developed food importing countries tend to be favoured by EC policies with bilateral preferences. The nature of chronic and transitory food insecurity problems in developing countries is examined. Consumption instability retards growth both of the very poor people within developing countries, as well as the countries themselves. While market based solutions do little to alleviate food insecurity, direct non-market approaches are preferable. It is suggested that a ‘food insurance fund’ is instituted either unilaterally by the EC or in conjunction with other donors, as an effective means to improve worldwide food security.