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Social Safety Nets and the Food Security Crisis

The impact of soaring food prices on poor households can be dramatic, exacerbating food insecurity negatively […]

World Bank Group Agriculture Action Plan 2010-2012

The World Bank Group has made a renewed commitment to agriculture: This document presents the World […]

Managing Food Security Implications of Food Price Shocks in Africa

Until the food price alarm went off, discussions on how to reduce hunger and malnutrition in […]

Report on Price Volatility: A zero draft consultation paper

In October 2010 the newly reformed Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested its High Level […]

Global Food Commodity Price Volatility and Developing Country Import Risks

The world food price spike of 2007–2008 raised to the fore the issues of how countries […]

Causes, Consequences and Policy Implications of Global Food Price Shocks: Introduction and Overview

Between January 2006 and April 2008 the real price of food traded on world markets rose […]

Growing a Better Future: food justice in a resource-constrained world

The global food system works only for the few – for most of us it is […]

OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020

This is the seventeenth edition of the Agricultural Outlook and the seventh co-edition prepared jointly with […]

Responding to Global Food Price Volatility and Its Impact on Food Security

International food prices are spiking again for the second time in three years, igniting concerns about […]

Food Security, Price Volatility and Trade: Some Reflections for Developing Countries

The main document discusses what food security is, highlights the heterogeneity of food insecurity situations, and […]

Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets: Policy Responses

Under the Food Security pillar of the Seoul Multi-year Action Plan on Development, the G20 “request […]

Price Volatility in Agricultural Markets: Evidence, impact on food security and policy responses

Recent bouts of extreme price volatility in global agricultural markets portend rising and more frequent threats […]

Ugandan Coffee Supply Chain Risk assessment

Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, […]

Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change: Opportunities and Challenges for a Converging Agenda: Country Examples

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the challenges and the practical successes that a […]

Risk and regulation of emerging price volatility of non-staple agricultural commodity in China

The development of agriculture penetrated in China’s history but recently has to face emerging challenge of […]

What types of safety nets would be most efficient and effective for protecting small farmers and the poor against volatile food prices?

Smallholder farmers in dryland areas, including the Arab region, face many risks, including those relating to […]

Commodity Price Volatility: The Impact of Commodity Index Traders

The dramatic rise in crop prices that occurred in the fall of 2006 was the beginning […]

Market-Based Price-Risk Management: Welfare Gains for Coffee Producers from Efficient Allocation of Resources

The volatility of coffee prices exposes coffee producers to price risk. Price risk is one of […]

Commodity price volatility

High and volatile commodity prices have returned as a significant global issue, with the prices of […]

Forecasting Corn Futures Volatility in the Presence of Long Memory, Seasonality and Structural Change

Price volatility in the corn market has changed considerably globalization and stronger linkages to the energy […]