Format:
1 Online-Ressource (circa 545 Seiten)
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Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9780191788017
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9780198718574
Series Statement:
UNU-WIDER studies in development economics
Content:
Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments responded as they did to the global food crisis of 2007-09 and what their decisions can teach us about policy interventions.
Content:
Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing the global agricultural system today. This was most vividly illustrated during the global food crisis of 2007-9 when price spikes occurred for key staple food commodities-such as wheat, rice, maize, and soybeans. Given the variety of reactions by governments of countries experiencing similar food price shocks, the 2007-9 crisis offered an excellent natural experiment for generating knowledge on responses to price volatility in particular and on the political economy of agricultural policy-making more generally. This book contains the wealth of collaborative research by a global team of experts on food price policy-the research was undertaken on a sizeable group of low- and middle-income countries that were highly affected by the 2007-9 food crisis. The central aim of the study is to uncover which political economy factorsranging from the constellation of different interest groups to the nature of political institutions-explain variations in policy responses across countries. The research output proves valuable for at least three target audiences. First, it can inform international organizations and donors about which types of policy interventions can mitigate price volatility and whether they are feasible given a country's political economy context. Second, it can help national policy makers better understand the trade-offs of certain policy interventions. Third, it generates much-needed further knowledge about the agricultural policy-making process in developing countries, which remains incredibly scarce despite the importance of agriculture to these countries’ economies.
Note:
Enth. 22 Beitr. - Enth. Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198718574
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Food price policy in an era of market instability Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2015 ISBN 9780198718574
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
Keywords:
Lebensmittelpreis
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718574.001.0001
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