The use of organized commodity markets to manage food import price instability and risk

Agricultural Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-64

  Sarris, Alexander ^a   Conforti, Piero ^a   Prakash, Adam ^a  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Commodity price insurance; Food import bill unpredictability and instability; Hedging developing country food import bills

Indexed keywords

COMMODITY; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOOD; IMPORT; INSURANCE SYSTEM; MAIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK FACTOR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WHEAT;

CHICAGO; ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 78650313199     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2010.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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