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several awards, among which are the UPD College of Education Gawad
Kolehiyo on ICT Integration (2011-2012), the Prof. Esperanza B. Bautista
Excellence in Teaching Ward (2007-2008), and the Jack C. Richards Professorial
Chair (2007-2008, 2008-2009). She is also a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, Pi
Gamma Mu, and Phi Theta Lambda international honor societies.

About the Presenter

About the College of Education

Dr. Clarete is a Professor and the current Dean of the University of the Philippines
School of Economics.

The College of Education (CEd) started as a unit of the College of Liberal Arts
in 1913. On 8 March 1918, the UP Board of Regents authorized the
reorganization of the School of Education into a College of Education effective
1 July 1918. The College transferred from Ermita to the Diliman Campus in
January 1949. In the 1970s, the College laboratory schools – the UP Elementary
School and the UP High School – were merged into the UP Integrated School.
In 1983, the UP Science Education Center, now known as UP National Institute
for Science and Mathematics Education Development (NISMED), a research
and development unit, was attached to the College.
At present, the College is the only Southeast Asian college offering a doctorate
in reading education and the only Philippine institution offering a doctorate in
special education. (Source: http://educ.upd.edu.ph/?page_id=2)

PHILIPPINE RICE SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM:
PITFALLS AND REMEDIES
Ramon L. Clarete
The Philippines is implementing its Food Self-sufficiency Program, which, among
other objectives, aims to make the country self-sufficient in rice in 2013 or
2016. To realize this goal, the Philippines has restricted rice imports, supported
palay prices, and invested billions of pesos largely in irrigation facilities. This
presentation will describe the program, identify its pitfalls, and suggest some
fixes. The plan, based on the multi-year stochastic simulations of rice yields
using the Arkansas Global Rice Model, has up to 10% chance of succeeding in
2016. This study, however, does not have any claim on the chances of the
government sustaining the country to be self-sufficient. Not attaining full selfsufficiency is not a bad target at all. The country may well adjust its target for
self-sufficiency and allow the private sector with the National Food Authority
to import the remaining gap. This study shows that the risk of food insecurity
that policy makers fear the country is vulnerable to under trade is low, and
with regional cooperation in ASEAN, some of these risks, as in 2008, can be
avoided or reduced.

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Ramon L. Clarete has over 20 years of experience as an applied policy
economist working on issue ́ɕ