This is a comment on the article by West et al. (2014) on “Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment”. The authors claim that the leverage points they have identified “offer the best opportunities to improve both global food security and environmental...

The Russian government implemented a wheat export tax in February 2015 to reduce food inflationary pressures resulting from the rouble's dramatic devaluation. This article discusses the causes of the rouble's instability and volatility, and the effects of the export controls on domestic wheat...

In diesem Kapitel werden Preisbeziehungen zwischen Agrargütern auf gleicher Verarbeitungsstufe anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele erläutert, Preisbeziehungen zwischen Agrarrohprodukten und ihren Kuppelprodukten (z.B. Milch, Eiweiß und Fett) erklärt und besondere institutionelle Ursachen für...

In 2015, all 193 UN member countries agreed to halve global food losses and waste by the year 2030. In this article, we are going to explore why the first official study on food loss and waste (FLW) by Gustavsson et al. FAO, 2011 cannot be used as a reasonable basis for policymaking – even...

The paper emphasizes the importance of embedded institutions for the transformation of the agricultural sector and rural economies in the transition countries and identifies and analyses institutional aspects regarding agriculture and rural development common to the transition countries. It...

Over fifteen years have elapsed since the transition from the centrally planned economic system started in the early 1990âs. During this time agricultural and rural areas of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone profound structural changes with wide variations in the degree of...

[fre] Le commerce international des produits agricoles est, dans la plupart des cas, la conséquence des politiques intérieures des gouvernements qui sont supposées réaliser les objectifs de production, de prix, et de revenu de chaque pays. Le commerce des produits agricoles est plus touché...