Headey, Derek D.; Malaiyandi, Sangeetha; Fan, Shenggen - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The closely interlinked food, fuel and financial crises pose a significant new challenge to the global effort to reduce poverty. In short run, the oil-biofuels nexus was clearly the driving force behind the surge in food prices, but export restrictions and panic purchases turned a tightened...