Physical and virtual global food reserves to protect the poor and prevent market failure

The current food crisis has several causes—rising demand for food and feed, biofuels, high oil prices, climate change, stagnant agricultural productivity growth—but there is increasing evidence that the crisis is being made worse by the malfunctioning of world grain markets. Given the thinness of ma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: von Braun, Joachim, Torero, Máximo
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/160567

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