World cereal price instability and a market based instrument for LDC food import risk management

Food Policy

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-209

  Sarris, Alexander H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cereal instability; Developing food deficit countries; Food imports; Risk management

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRICE; CEREAL; FOOD SECURITY;

EID: 0034032632     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9192(99)00086-X     Document Type: Article

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