The stability of food supply chains is crucial to the food security of people around the world.
Since the beginning of 2020, this stability has been undergoing one of the most vigorous …

Prices of grains and other storable are char-acterized by long periods in the doldrums,
punctuated by short but intense price spikes (Deaton and Laroque 1992). Those spikes are …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade and dominate the exports of many
countries. Policy is used to manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources …

The interaction between biofuels and food markets remains a policy issue for a number of
reasons. There is a continuing need to understand the role of biofuels in the recent spikes in …

This paper reviews experiences on food export restrictions during 2007-10 and related
studies and makes some proposals for disciplining export restrictions through the ongoing …

The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around
biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, farm policies and between countries …

This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in
the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform …

In response to the dramatic increases in world agricultural commodity prices during the food
crisis of 2007-08 many countries pursued trade and domestic policy responses intended to …

This paper aims to assess the rationales for export taxes in the context of a food crisis. First,
we summarize the effects of export taxes using both partial and general equilibrium …

This paper analyses the impacts of trade policy responses to rising world food prices by
carrying out a series of stylised experiments in the wheat market using a world trade model …