Global Food Price Volatility and Spikes: An Overview of Costs, Causes, and Solutions
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Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty; Land Economics/Use; Production Economics;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2012-02-20 (Agricultural Economics)
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