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East and Southeast Asia encompass some of the largest and fastest growing markets for U.S. agricultural exports. ERS economists provide data and analysis on agricultural supply, consumption, trade, and policies of key countries in the region, including Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.
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Pacific Food System Outlook 2003-2004, Where Demographics Will Take the Food System assesses the impact of expanded urbanization, variability in population growth and immigration, and aging populations on the Asia-Pacific food system. The ability of developing countries to adjust to rapid urbanization will be the most important demographic challenge, testing the region's capacity to deliver a steady flow of safe, reasonably priced food.
Structural Change and Agricultural Protection: Costs of Korean Agricultural Policy, 1975 and 1990 provides an overview of South Korea's agricultural policy goals and outcomes in a period of rapid economic development. Protection of agriculture skewed farmers' choices of crops and tended to retain labor in agriculture (and out of manufacturing and services), resulting in misallocation of resources. Despite the sharp decline of agriculture's importance in Korea's general economy, high import barriers continued, incurring greater costs to the economy in 1990 than in 1975.
Enhancing Food Safety in the APEC Region reviews how changing consumption patterns, lengthening of supply chains, and the rising share of perishable food products in trade are generating food safety concerns in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region. APEC countries are increasingly implementing quality and risk management systems and training programs to make food supplies safer.
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updated: April 8, 2004
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