Reforming Foodgrains Management: Achieving Food Security with Cost-Effectiveness

雩风三日

Reforming Foodgrains Management:Achieving Food Security with Cost-Effectiveness
改革粮食管理:以成本效益实现粮食安全

      This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare benefits to the poor. The paper then presents a series of suggestions for reforming and modernizing the foodgrains management system in the country that would be welfare improving and also efficient, saving vast amounts of resources that can be used to invest in augmenting agricultural, especially foodgrains output.
     本文考察了当前公共粮食管理和政策体系在促进国家粮食安全方面的有效性。它认为，这种制度已经失去了它的效用，继续保持这种制度只会抑制粮食的增长，对穷人的福利福利很少。在此基础上，本文提出了我国粮食管理体制改革和现代化的一系列建议，以期提高我国粮食管理体制的福利水平和效率，节约大量可用于投资扩大农业特别是粮食产量的资源。
Key words: Food grains management, Food policy, Food security
关键词:粮食管理，粮食政策，粮食安全