This book provides fresh insights into concepts, methods and new research findings on the causes of excessive food price volatility. It also discusses the implications for food security and policy responses to mitigate excessive volatility. The approaches applied by the contributors range from on-the-ground surveys, to panel econometrics and innovative high-frequency time series analysis as well as computational economics methods. It offers policy analysts and decision-makers guidance on dealing with extreme volatility.
Food policies to date in India have seen an marked increase in production. However, equity in distribution and cost checks have had less success. Managing India's Food Economy examines the acheivements and failures of the present system. Tyagi proposes alternatives that would substantially reduce government intervention and associated subsidy burden without adversely affecting acheivement of the major goals of the food policy. An incisive analysis of current policy coupled with viable strategies for change, Managing India's Food Economy is sure to interest scholars, students, professionals, and policymakers in public administration, economics, and policy studies.
The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.
This book investigates the relationships between rural poverty, risk, and development. Building upon the author's work in the area, it summarises the contributions of recent theoretical and empirical work to our understanding of how risk affects rural poverty levels in developing countries. In particular the book examines what we do and do not know about risk coping strategies among today's poor rural societies. Ways in which these strategies may be re-examined and improved by governments and international organisations are proposed.
The international environment for national price policies; Domestic market intervention; Production response, technology, and commercialization; Consumers' welfare.
The book highlights proceedings from the Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.
Study of agricultural price and related price policies in developing countries, with partic. Reference to India - discusses trends (1954- 1980), objectives of price supports and administered prices, difference between pricing of agricultural products and industrial products, price-elasticity of agricultural production, calculation of price index numbers of wholesale price and retail price, seasonal price variations, importance of production cost in pricing, impact of terms of trade and agricultural markets, etc. Bibliographys and graphs.