TY  - BOOK
AU  - McClintock,John
ED  - C.A.B. International,
TI  - The fight against food shortages and surpluses: perspectives of a practitioner 
SN  - 9781786394859
AV  - HD9000.4 .M335 2020eb
U1  - 331.1/331 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK
PB  - CABI
KW  - Grain
KW  - Prices
KW  - Grain trade
KW  - Food security
KW  - Price policy
KW  - cabt
KW  - Price stabilization
KW  - Food grains
KW  - Buffer stocks
KW  - Fluctuations
KW  - Food supply
KW  - Market prices
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Grain in the world -- The pattern of grain prices -- The root cause of unstable grain prices -- Unstable grain prices: Who wins? Who loses? -- Stabilizing grain prices in a closed economy -- A model of the international grain market -- Stabilizing grain prices in an open economy -- Buffer stocks: technical and legal aspects -- Attitudes towards price stabilization and buffer stocks; Access limited to subscribing institution; Also available in print format
N2  - This book explores what governments and regional organizations can do to keep the price of agricultural commodities stable on their own national markets if the world price becomes too high or too low. It focuses on one group of agricultural commodities - food grains. The book advocates the deployment of public grain stocks to stabilize market prices while retaining the important messages of longer-term price trends. The book has 11 chapters and a subject index
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781786394842.0000
ER  -