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Causes and Implications of the Food Price Surge

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  • Meyers, William H.
  • Meyer, Seth D.

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This paper analyzes the food price surge of 2005 to 2008 in order to better understand the factors causing higher and more volatile food prices during this period, to ascertain the relative importance and possible persistence of the different factors, and to suggest possible implications for future market behavior and policy reactions.

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  • Meyers, William H. & Meyer, Seth D., 2008. "Causes and Implications of the Food Price Surge," FAPRI-MU Report Series 47533, Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:faprre:47533
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.47533
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    1. Busse, S. & Brümmer, B. & Ihle, R., 2011. "Investigating rapeseed price volatilities in the course of the food crisis," Proceedings “Schriften der Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften des Landbaues e.V.”, German Association of Agricultural Economists (GEWISOLA), vol. 46, March.
    2. Jin Guo & Tetsuji Tanaka, 2019. "Determinants of international price volatility transmissions: the role of self-sufficiency rates in wheat-importing countries," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 5(1), pages 1-13, December.
    3. Kavallari, Aikaterini & Gay, Hubertus & Burrell, Alison M., 2010. "Eu Biofuel Policies: A Closer Look At Some Collateral Impacts," 14th ICABR Conference, June 16-18, 2010, Ravello, Italy 188099, International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR).
    4. Serra, Teresa & Zilberman, David, 2013. "Biofuel-related price transmission literature: A review," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 37(C), pages 141-151.
    5. Olabode, Samuel & Ogunrinola, Adedeji, 2018. "Effect of Agricultural Price Volatility and Investment on the Economic Growth Of Nigeria: A Case of Cocoa Production (1981-2013)," MPRA Paper 100572, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2019.
    6. Ahmed, Osama, 2021. "Do future markets protect the spot markets in developing countries? The case of the Egyptian wheat market," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 20(5), pages 65-83.
    7. Unknown, 2010. "Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development, Volume 6, Issue 1," Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development, Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development, vol. 6(1), pages 135-135, June.

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    Agricultural and Food Policy;

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