Agricultural Markets Instability: Revisiting the Recent Food Crises (Earthscan Food and Agriculture)

Synopsis

Since the financial and food price crises of 2007, market instability has been a topic of major concern to agricultural economists and policy professionals. This volume provides an overview of the key issues surrounding food prices volatility, focusing primarily on drivers, long-term implications of volatility and its impacts on food chains and consumers. The book explores which factors and drivers are volatility-increasing and which others are price level-increasing, and whether these two distinctive effects can be identified and measured. It considers the extent to which increasing instability affects agents in the value chain, as well as the actual impacts on the most vulnerable households in the EU and in selected developing countries. It also analyses which policies are more effective to avert and mitigate the effects of instability. Developed from the work of the European-based ULYSSES project, the book synthesises the most recent literature on the topic and presents the views of practitioners, businesses, NGOs and farmers' organizations. It draws policy responses and recommendations for policy makers at both European and on international levels.

Copyright:

2016

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

218 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317384649

Related ISBNs:

9781138937413, 9781315676265, 9781138588943

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

10/17/22

Copyrighted By:

Alberto Garrido, Bernhard Brümmer, Robert M'Barek, Miranda P. Meuwissen, Cristian Morales-Opazo

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Business and Finance

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Alberto Garrido

Edited by:

Bernhard Brümmer

Edited by:

Robert M'Barek

Edited by:

Miranda P. Meuwissen

Edited by:

Cristian Morales-Opazo