Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability

A Political Economy Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were observed for key food commodities such as rice, wheat, and maize. The full or partial transmission of these global food price changes to individual developing countries, together with domestic food price changes, caused by domestic factors such as extreme weather events and market disruptions, caused governments to respond in a variety of ways. While there is ample description of the nature, content, and causes of food price fluctuations during the last 5 to 7 years, very little is known about the processes that led to policy responses or the relative power and behaviour of the participating stakeholder groups. Understanding how and why governments responded as they did is important to enhance the existing knowledge of the political economy of food price policy and to assist governments in their policy-making as they confront future food price fluctuations. This book presents results from political economy studies of food price policy in 14 developing countries as well as the United States and the European Union.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• 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