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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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kalkuhl, Matthias (Editor), von Braun, Joachim (Editor), Torero, Maximo (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28201-5
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505 0 |a 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. 
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