results support the conclusion from earlier studies that there is a need for stronger World Trade Organization disciplines on …

unmanageable stock accumulation. Based on a rational expectations storage model representing the Indian wheat market and its … relation to the rest of the world, this paper analyzes the cost and welfare implications of this policy and unpacks the …

find that this insulation added substantially to the spike in international prices for rice, wheat, maize, and oilseeds. As …This paper has two purposes. It first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade … in staple foods during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes -- reductions in import protection or increases in …

This paper shows how a developing country, Lao PDR, imports high glutinous rice prices by exporting its staple food to … neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating a sizable difference … since they give rise to price spikes, keep the long-term price of glutinous rice low, and thereby hinder increases in income …

and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …

exposed to price volatility and most cashew farmers are poor. It is estimated that their income falls by 12 percent as a …

Standards Measurement Survey and utilizes market prices for key cereals, teff, wheat, and maize at the zone level across all …

market integration in Central and Eastern Africa for three food staples: maize, rice, and sorghum. The paper uses a large …