Drivers and triggers of international food price spikes and volatility

Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 59-82

  Tadasse, Getaw ^a   Algieri, Bernadina ^b   Kalkuhl, Matthias ^c   von Braun, Joachim ^c  

^a International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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EID: 85016233932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28201-5_3     Document Type: Chapter

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