Safeguarding Food Security in Volatile Global Markets

Safeguarding Food Security in Volatile
Global Markets

 

edited by
ADAM PRAKASH

 

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Rome 2011

Table of Contents

PART I: SETTING THE STAGE

PART II: WHY A NEW POLICY DIALOGUE IS NEEDED

PART III: INFORMATION, EXPECTATIONS AND THE ROLE OF STOCKS

PART IV: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE TOWARDS FOOD SECURITY
  1. Why volatility matters - 564 kb
    Adam Prakash
  2. Commodity prices: theoretical and empirical properties - 412 kb
    Matthieu Stigler
  3. Rising vulnerability in the global food system: beyond market fundamentals - 512 kb
    Adam Prakash and Christopher L. Gilbert
  4. Rising vulnerability in the global food system: environmental pressures and climate change - 538 kb
    Global Perspectives Unit (FAO) and Natural Resources Department (FAO)
  5. The nature and determinants of volatility in agricultural prices: an empirical study - 665 kb
    Kelvin Balcombe
  6. Emerging linkages between price volatilities in energy and agricultural markets - 917 kb
    Stefan Busse, Bernhard Brümmer and Rico Ihle
  7. Grains price pass-through, 2005-09 - 779 kb
    Christopher L. Gilbert
  8. Price transmission and volatility spillovers in food markets - 547 kb
    George Rapsomanikis
  1. The world rice market in 2007-08 - 356 kb
    David Dawe and Tom Slayton
  2. Country responses to turmoil in global food markets - 496 kb
    Mulat Demeke, Guendalina Pangrazio and Materne Maetz
  3. International commodity agreements and their current relevance for grains price stabilization - 490 kb
    Christopher L. Gilbert
  4. The fallacy of price interventions: a note on price bands and managed tarifs - 423 kb
    Brian Wright and Adam Prakash
  1. The rise of commodity speculation: from villainous to venerable - 498 kb
    Ann Berg
  2. The economics of information and behaviour in explaining excess volatility - 589 kb
    Adam Prakash and Matthieu Stigler
  3. Storage arbitrage and commodity price volatility - 2.104 kb
    Carlo Cafiero, Eugenio Bobenrieth and Juan Bobenrieth
  4. The role of stocks in generating volatility and crisis - 769 kb
    Matthieu Stigler and Adam Prakash
  1. Global governance - 621 kb
    Panos Konandreas
  2. Coping with food price surges - 476 kb
    Christopher L. Gilbert and Alexandra Tabova
  3. Using futures and options to manage price volatility in food imports - 476 kb
    Alexander Sarris, Piero Conforti, and Adam Prakash
  4. Using futures and options to manage price volatility in food imports: practice - 848 kb
    Morgan Stanley Commodities Group
  5. The global grain contract: towards a new food security instrument - 374 kb
    Ann Berg
  6. Strengthening global food market monitoring - 592 kb
    Jim Greenfield and Abdolreza Abbassian
  7. Addressing the biofuels problem - 332 kb
    Brian Wright
  8. Targeting the most vulnerable: implementing social safety nets - 374 kb
    Zoltan Tiba, Agricultural Development Economics Division, (FAO).
  9. Targeting the most vulnerable: emergency reserves and other instruments - 366 kb
    Agricultural Support Systems Division (FAO).
  10. Targeting the most vulnerable: implementing input subsidies - 351 kb
    Zoltan Tiba, Agricultural Development Economics Division, (FAO).
  11. Investing towards a world free of hunger - 776 kb
    Josef Schmidhuber and Jelle Bruinsma

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