and the likely destinations of these products in national or international markets. Local collectors/farmers and dealers … were surveyed about their collection efforts, quantities collected, prices received, and resulting incomes. Herbal markets …

malfunctioning of world grain markets. Given the thinness of major markets for cereals, the restrictions on grain exports imposed by …

futures markets, including food commodity markets, which contributed to a price spike during the first six months of 2008 …. This episode highlights the need to modify the architecture of international financial and agricultural markets to address … for regulating agricultural and commodity futures markets should be developed and recent inappropriate trade policy …

input and output markets, going back decades before the period under review. Most significantly, in the wake of economic … reforms launched during the 1980s, it has withdrawn from most of the commodity markets except wheat. In other commodity … markets, intervention is by and large notional and without much practical involvement. The rolling back of the public sector …