Maitre d'Hotel, Elodie; le Cotty, Tristan; Jayne, Thomas S. - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2012
The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …