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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present …, Chinese agriculture is relatively resilient to climate change. It is unlikely that Chinese food security by 2050 will be …
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This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...
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Diese Kurzdarstellung bietet einen Überblick (1.) über die realwirtschaftlichen Ursa-chen der jüngsten Agrarpreiskrisen sowie (2.) über die wissenschaftliche Evidenz zu der Frage, inwiefern die Agrarpreiskrisen durch index-basierte Terminmarktgeschäfte von Finanzinvestoren hervorgerufen...
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During the recent food crisis, developing countries responded with a wide variety of policy responses to protect their population. Understanding the policy-making process in developing countries is important to know why such policy responses are made and how various actors and players shape up...
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Eine Auswertung von 35 Forschungsarbeiten über den Einfluss der Finanzspekulation auf die Agrarrohstoffmärkte gelangt zu folgenden Ergebnissen: Die weit überwiegende Mehrheit der Studien kann die in der öffentlichen Diskussion vorherrschenden Befürchtungen nicht bestätigen. Gemäß...
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An evaluation of 35 research papers into the impact of financial speculation on agricultural commodities markets has revealed: The vast majority of studies did not confirm the concerns that prevail in public discourse. The current state of knowledge indicates only a few, and weak, findings that...
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