This essay on food security and rice demonstrates that there are no grounds for regarding our annual shortages in rice production as "crises." It presents data to show and explain the shortages and consequent imports of foreign rice annually, since the 1870s. During the United States colonial regime, the policy on rice was price controls to keep prices low, on the one hand, and rice imports, on the other. The second part of the article presents the basics of a national food security policy; this is related to the need to modernize and achieve efficiency to cope with globalization trends.