Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kalkuhl, Matthias (Editor), Kalkuhl, Matthias. editor (editor), von Braun, Joachim. editor, Torero, Maximo. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2016
Cham : 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009434535306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Food Price Volatility at International Food Commodity markets
  • Part II: Commodity and Financial Market Linkages
  • Part 3: National and Regional Response to Food Price volatility
  • Part IV: the Micro-Economics of Price risk, volatility and Price shocks: Household, Firms and Communities.