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"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be before reforms can be launched? Relying on well timed surveys of agricultural prices and a joint study by the Government of Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market...
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The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national food grain stockpiles … support policies in the developed countries. However, large 'buffer' or 'intervention' stocks, as the grain accumulations in … practitioners, revisits the issues and evidence concerning grain stocks. It starts with an open mind concerning stocks as policy …
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reduce grain PHL in SSA over the last 30 years and from experts in the field. These experts were identified and asked to …
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"The increase in food prices represents a major crisis for the world's poor. This paper aims to review the evidence on the potential impact of higher food prices on poverty in sub-Saharan Africa, and examines the extent to which policy responses will benefit the poor. The paper shows that rising...
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