Getreide ist das wichtigste Produkt für die Welternährung und die Weltlandwirtschaft: Etwa die Hälfte des direkten Nahrungsverzehrs, gemessen in Kalorien (1990-92: 51,2 %), besteht aus Getreide, und Getreide ist ein wichtiges Futtermittel. Angebot, Nachfrage, Handel und Preise werden durch...

The paper provides the first large-scale survey-based evidence on the impact of the global food crisis of 2007-08 using an indicator of self-assessed food security from the Gallup World Poll. For the sampled countries as a whole, this subjective indicator of food security remained the same or...

When prices spike in international grain markets, national governments often reduce the extent to which that spike affects their domestic food markets. Those actions exacerbate the price spike and international welfare transfer associated with the terms of trade change. Several recent analyses...