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John Mcclintock

The Fight Against Food Shortages and Surpluses

Perspectives of a Practitioner

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The price of food commodities - such as wheat, corn and rice - is unstable. It can suddenly shoot up, making food unaffordable for millions of people around the world, bringing hunger and famine. A shortage may be due to bad weather or to a human pandemic which disrupts the food system. The other side of the volatility coin is a grain surplus - too much grain on the market. A grain surplus can cause food prices to rapidly fall, wiping out the profits of farming families and jeopardising their livelihoods. The whole world would be better off if commodity prices were more stable. The challenge is for governments to manage food and farming so th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78639-486-6
  • EAN: 9781786394866
  • Produktnummer: 34958202
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 184 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 9'871 KB

Über den Autor


John McClintock is an agricultural economist (Reading and Oxford universities, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique, Montpellier). He has worked in a number of developing and European countries and for the European Commission. He is the founder of ACTION for Food Reserves, a non-governmental organisation in Brussels that seeks to promote stable grain prices and the use of buffer stocks.

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