Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

A Political Economy Analysis
Herausgeber: Pinstrup-Andersen, Per

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Produktbeschreibung

Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments responded as they did to the global food crisis of 2007-09 and what their decisions can teach us about policy interventions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 957g
• ISBN-13: 9780198718574
• ISBN-10: 0198718578
• Artikelnr.: 41862867

Autorenporträt

PPer Pinstrup-Andersen is Graduate School Professor at Cornell University and Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen University. He is Chairman of the High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security (HLPE) and Vice chairman of the World Economic Forum's Council on food Security. He is past Chairman of the Science Council of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and Past President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Agricultural Economics Association. He has served as the International Food Policy Research Institute's Director General, as an economist at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, and as distinguished professor at Wageningen University. He is the 2001 World Food Prize Laureate and the recipient of several awards for his research. His publications include more than 450 books, articles, and papers.

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: An Overview
* 1: Per Pinstrup-Andersen: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy:
An Overview
* Part II: Syntheses of Findings from Country Studies
* 2: Kenneth Baltzer: International to Domestic Price Transmission in
14 Developing Countries during the 2007-08 Food Crisis
* 3: Shane Bryan: A Cacophony of Policy Responses: Evidence from 14
Countries during the 2007-08 Food Price Crisis
* 4: Suresh Babu: Policy Processes and Food Price Crises: A Framework
for Analysis and Lessons from Country Studies
* 5: Derrill D. Watson II: A Political Economy Synthesis of Food Price
Policy in 14 Countries
* Part III: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low-Income
Landlocked Countries
* 6: Assefa Admassie: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in
Ethiopia
* 7: Ephraim W. Chirwa and Blessings Chinsinga: The Political Economy
of Food Price Policy in Malawi
* 8: Antony Chapoto: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in
Zambia
* Part IV: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low-Income
Countries with Limited Dependence on Food Imports
* 9: Jonathan Makau Nzuma: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy
in Kenya
* 10: Virgulino Nhate, Claudio Massingarela, and Vincenzo Salvucci: The
Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Mozambique
* Part V: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Low and
Middle-Income Countries Heavily Dependent on Food Import
* 11: Selim Raihan: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in
Bangladesh
* 12: Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy
in Egypt
* 13: Aderibigbe S. Olomola: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy
in Nigeria
* 14: Danielle Resnick: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in
Senegal
* Part VI: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in Large
Exporters
* 15: Nguyen Manh Hai and Theodore Talbot: The Political Economy of
Food Price Policy in Vietnam
* 16: Kavery Ganguly and Ashok Gulati: The Political Economy of Food
Price Policy in India
* 17: Jikun Huang, Jun Yang, and Scott Rozelle: The Political Economy
of Food Price Policy in China
* 18: Bernardo Mueller and Charles Mueller: The Political Economy of
Food Price Policy in Brazil
* 19: Johann F. Kirsten: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in
South Africa
* Part VII: The Political Economy of Food Price Policy in High-Income
Countries
* 20: Gordon C. Rausser and Harry de Gorter: US Policy Contributions to
Agricultural Commodity Price Fluctuations 2006-12
* 21: Johan Swinnen, Louise Knops, and Kristine Van Herck: Food Price
Volatility and EU Policies
* Part VIII: Conclusions and Recommendations
* 22: Per Pinstrup-Andersen: The Political Economy of Food Price
Policy: Key Policy-Related Lessons