Contract farming agreements are forward contracts specifying the obligations of two business partners: the sellers’ (farmers’) promise to supply and the buyers’ (processors’/ traders’) promise to off-take agricultural…
Biofuel production has been one of the factors behind the 2007–08 food crisis (Headey and Fan 2010). Between 2000 and 2007, 30 percent of cereal price increases were due to biofuel expansion (Rosegrant, 2008). Rising…
Food speculation is ubiquitous. Systemic benefits from risk sharing between farmers and financial speculators have to be weighed against the resulting high price volatility and the possible emergence of price bubbles. A…
The price hike of 2010/2011 is now the second one to have severely affected African countries and their many poor people since the global food price increases of 2007/2008. The following article looks at its extent and…
In Asia, grain prices continue to reach high levels. However, the impact of international trends varies from country to country. Limited supply response to the price hike points to structural weaknesses in the food…
Food price volatility is both multi-causal and multi-impact. Severe as the 2007–2008 spike was, the 1970s were a period of much greater volatility – yet the future holds new uncertainties that call for novel policy…
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