Managing food price instability: Critical assessment of the dominant doctrine

Global Food Security

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 72-81

  Galtier, Franck ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

Author keywords

Food security; Grain market; Green revolution; Price risk management; Price stabilization; Safety nets

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881094255     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2013.02.001     Document Type: Review

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