Public Stockholding for Food Security Programmes: State of Play in the East African Community

The issue of public stockholding for food security purposes has become an important issue for developing countries as well as LDCs due to increasing populations and climate change adversity coupled with food prices volatility on the global markets. This note analyses the state of play of such programmes in the East African Community, in order to support East African delegates’ work at the WTO towards finding a permanent solution by 2019.