Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
Editors: Kalkuhl, Matthias, von Braun, Joachim, Torero, Maximo (Eds.)
Free Preview- Develops tools and concepts for analyzing excessive food price volatility in related contexts
- Presents recently established time-series models as well as nonparametric approaches to link international price volatility with domestic consumer welfare
- Provides instruments for policy analysts and decision makers in the public and private sectors for reducing excessive food price volatility
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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.
- About the authors
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Matthias Kalkuhl is Professor on Climate Change, Development and Economic Growth at the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Head of the Working Group Economic Growth and Human Development, MCC Berlin, Germany
Joachim von Braun is Professor for Economic and Technological Change at the University of Bonn and Director of the Center for Development Research (ZEF)
Maximo Torero, Dr., is Division Director of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI for Latin America, leader of the Global Research Program on Institutions and Infrastructure for Markets Development, and co-leader of the Global Research Program on Urban and Rural Linkages
- Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Volatile and Extreme Food Prices, Food Security, and Policy: An Overview
Pages 3-31
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Volatile Volatility: Conceptual and Measurement Issues Related to Price Trends and Volatility
Pages 35-57
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Drivers and Triggers of International Food Price Spikes and Volatility
Pages 59-82
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The Effects of Southern Hemisphere Crop Production on Trade, Stocks, and Price Integration
Pages 83-100
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Food Price Changes, Price Insulation, and Their Impacts on Global and Domestic Poverty
Pages 101-113
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy
- Editors
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- Matthias Kalkuhl
- Joachim von Braun
- Maximo Torero
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-28201-5
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-28201-5
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-28199-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-80295-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 626
- Number of Illustrations
- 78 b/w illustrations, 56 illustrations in colour
- Topics