Food commodity price volatility and food insecurity

Bio-based and Applied Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 213-236

  Sarris, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agricultural price volatility; Developing countries; Food insecurity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85049441131     PISSN: 22806180     EISSN: 22806172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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