Food Trade Openness and Enhancement of Food Security—Partial Equilibrium Model Simulations for Selected Countries

This research measured the welfare impacts of food trade liberalization in India, Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE) using partial equilibrium model—World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS). Macroeconomic settings, domestic policy objectives, security indicator data are used to assess implications simulations on availability stability. Simulation results for Pakistan indicate annual gains (consumer surplus) 2571, 340, 25 million USD, respectively, while Arabia UAE have 14 17 USD. Results show that tariff elimination would wide-ranging across commodities within these countries. Moreover, reductions specific directly relevant energy protein a greater direct impact poor. Lowering highest tariffs those might raise real incomes more than 350 persons by 7.5% or could create shifts consumption towards diversified nutritionally sound diets.