Managing Price Volatility: Approaches at the global, national, and household levels

Abstract

Acknowledgements: This paper serves as background to the fourth presentation in a Symposium Series on Global Food Policy and Food Security hosted by the Food Security and Environment Program at Stanford University, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The paper draws heavily on my own work over the past three decades analyzing food price stabilization. I would like to thank Wally Falcon for a very helpful set of comments on an earlier draft.