for a discussion of policy design and reform see oecd agricultural policies in oecd countries a positive reform agenda and oecd a agricultural policy design a synthesis various proposals have been made in the context of current wto negotiations to correct the current imbalance of import and export rules to imports including the binding and elimination of export taxes and prohibition of export restrictions the purpose of the asean food security reserve as stated in the original agreement is to provide for a supply of rice in emergency situations when a member country having suffered a natural or maninduced calamity is unable to cope with such state or condition through either its national reserve stocks or normal international trade