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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Institutionell skapare: SpringerLink (Online service)
Övriga skapare: Kalkuhl, Matthias (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare), von Braun, Joachim (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare), Torero, Maximo (Utgivare, redaktör, sammanställare)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
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Länkar:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28201-5
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Sammanfattning: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-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.
Fysisk beskrivning:XI, 626 p. 134 illus., 56 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9783319282015
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-28201-5
Tillgång:Open Access