This paper examines the world price transmission to China for four food commodities (maize, rice, soybeans and wheat …) during the recent food commodity prices spike (2006-2008). To understand the world price transmission to China for the food …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world … classifying themselves at the World Trade Organization as developing account for only 3 percent of world rice consumption. But it …

volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and …

The political economy of food price policy: an overview / Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- International to domestic price … transmission in fourteen developing countries during the 2007-8 food crisis / Kenneth Baltzer -- A cacophony of policy responses …: evidence from fourteen countries during the 2007-8 food price crisis / Shane Bryan -- Policy processes and food price crises: a …