| AAY | Antyodaya Anna Yojana (poorest household category in India) |
| AMIS | Agricultural Market Information System |
| aT | Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corporation |
| BAAC | Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives |
| BULOG | Badan Urusan Logisitk (Bureau of Logistics) |
| CGE | Computable General Equilibrium |
| CIP | Central Issue Price |
| COFCO | China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation |
| DGF | Director General of Food |
| ERS | Economic Research Service |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FAPRI | Food and Agriculture Policy Research Institute |
| FCI | Food Corporation of India |
| FFW | Food For Work |
| FOBB | Farmers Option to Buy-Back |
| FPMU | Food Planning Monitoring Unit |
| GAIN | Global Agriculture Information Network |
| GKP | Gabah Kering Panen (Prices for wet paddy) |
| GOJ | Government of Japan |
| HPP | Harga Pembelian Pemerintah (Government Purchasing Price) |
| kt | Thousand tonnes |
| MA | Minimum Access |
| MAFF | Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan) |
| MAFRA | Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Korea) |
| MAV | Minimum Access Volume |
| MFN | Most Favoured Nation |
| MIP | Minimum Issue Price |
| MMA | Minimum Market Access |
| MSP | Minimum Support Price |
| MY | Marketing Year |
| NFA | National Food Authority |
| NFSA | National Food Security Act |
| OMA | Ordinary Minimum Access |
| OMS | Open Market Sale |
| OMSS | Open Market Sales Scheme |
| OWS | Other Welfare Schemes |
| PDS | Public Distribution System |
| PFDS | Public Food Distribution System |
| PRSP | Public Rice Stockholding Programme |
| PSSE | Public Storage System for Emergencies |
| PWO | Public Warehouse Organization |
| RMR | Regular Milled Rice |
| SAG | State Administration of Grain |
| SBS | Simultaneous Buy and Sell |
| SINOGRAIN | China Grain Reserve Corporation |
| TPDS | Targeted Public Distribution System |
| TRQ | Tariff Rate Quota |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| UT | Union Territory |
| VGD | Vulnerable Group Development |
| VGF | Vulnerable Group Feeding |
| WMR | Well Milled Rice |
| WTO | World Trade Organisation |