Trade Liberalization and Food Security: The Case of Bolivia after the Structural Reforms of 1985 = Liberalización comercial y seguridad alimentaria: el caso de Bolivia luego de las reformas estructurales de 1985
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- 861281
- Fecha de publicación
- 2009
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- 2009
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- inglés
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- Ciencias sociales; Ciencias sociales / Administración pública y ciencia militar
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- Bolivia
- Colfuturo
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- Economic Reforms; Food security; Trade Liberalization
- This research shows the relationship between trade liberalization and food security for the Bolivian case. As a result of the severe economic crisis of the early-1980s, Bolivia adopted a series of market-oriented reforms in 1985. The reforms included the liberalization of the trade regime and the promotion of non-traditional exports. The trade liberalization had an important effect on the performance of cash crops, especially in the development of the soybeans industry. However, food crops did not have such a great dynamics.
Vegetables and starchy roots declined in per capita terms and the increase in imports were not enough to compensate the decline. Trade reforms mostly favor a small group of large-scale farmers in the lowlands, who had historically been granted land in the region. In this sense, Bolivia’s involvement in a trade liberalization process has not been reflected in an overall improvement of the country’s food security.
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