volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and … begins with a discussion of volatility and of the ways in which volatility affects countries, businesses, consumers and … volatility in future. This report offers suggestions for a systematic and internationally coordinated response building on the …

along with average levels. Although price volatility is an intrinsic characteristic of agricultural markets, it has … linkages with more volatile oil prices, including through biofuels, tend to place upward pressure on food price volatility …. These factors are likely to persist in the short-to medium-term suggesting that volatility may be higher in the future than …

The objective of this paper is to develop an approach for integrating a gender dimension into Agricultural Sector Risk … Assessments (ASRAs). The focus is on the approach because both agricultural risk and gender issues are contextual, thus the … outcomes of a gender-based risk assessment are highly dependent on the social, cultural, geo-graphic, and economic contexts of …