Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends?
Grain traders in 1995 may have wondered if they were about to relive the world food crisis of the early 1970s. Prices for wheat, rice, and maize shot up during the year, grain stocks continued a three-year fall, fertilizer prices increased, and food aid dropped to slightly more than half of what it...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
1995
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| author | Pinstrup-Andersen, Per Garrett, James L. |
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| description | Grain traders in 1995 may have wondered if they were about to relive the world food crisis of the early 1970s. Prices for wheat, rice, and maize shot up during the year, grain stocks continued a three-year fall, fertilizer prices increased, and food aid dropped to slightly more than half of what it was in 1992. Overall grain production declined only about 3.4 percent in 1995, following a 2.5 percent increase in 1994. And global stocks have been declining for a number of years. So why large price increases now? The authors explore the reasons for this phenomenon and try to shed light on whether it is a blip or a "trend". They examine the effects of rising prices on food security in low-income countries and what some countries have done to cope with price fluctuations that affect the international grain markets." |
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| spelling | CGSpace1571492025-01-10T06:36:10Z Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? Pinstrup-Andersen, Per Garrett, James L. food prices grain prices wheat rice maize markets Grain traders in 1995 may have wondered if they were about to relive the world food crisis of the early 1970s. Prices for wheat, rice, and maize shot up during the year, grain stocks continued a three-year fall, fertilizer prices increased, and food aid dropped to slightly more than half of what it was in 1992. Overall grain production declined only about 3.4 percent in 1995, following a 2.5 percent increase in 1994. And global stocks have been declining for a number of years. So why large price increases now? The authors explore the reasons for this phenomenon and try to shed light on whether it is a blip or a "trend". They examine the effects of rising prices on food security in low-income countries and what some countries have done to cope with price fluctuations that affect the international grain markets." 1995 2024-10-24T12:47:42Z 2024-10-24T12:47:42Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157149 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Pinstrup-Andersen, Per; Garrett, James L. 1995. Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? 2020 Policy Brief 30. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/157149 |
| spellingShingle | food prices grain prices wheat rice maize markets Pinstrup-Andersen, Per Garrett, James L. Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? |
| title | Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? |
| title_full | Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? |
| title_short | Rising food prices and falling grain stocks: short-run blips or new trends? |
| title_sort | rising food prices and falling grain stocks short run blips or new trends |
| topic | food prices grain prices wheat rice maize markets |
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