The Politics of High Food Prices

Food Politics ◽

10.1093/wentk/9780199322398.003.0003 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Robert Paarlberg

Keyword(s):

International Market ◽

Food Prices ◽

High Food ◽

Political Issue ◽

Market Prices

When did high food prices become a political issue? Most recently high food prices became an intense political issue in 2007–2008, when international market prices for rice, wheat, and corn all spiked sharply upward at the same time. By April 2008, the price of maize...

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How to Understand High Food Prices

Journal of Agricultural Economics ◽

10.1111/j.1477-9552.2010.00248.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 61 (2) ◽

pp. 398-425 ◽

Cited By ~ 294

Author(s):

Christopher L. Gilbert

Keyword(s):

Food Prices ◽

High Food

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North Macedonian crisis spurs move to renewable energy

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db266560 ◽

2022 ◽

Keyword(s):

Power Plants ◽

International Market ◽

Well Being ◽

Global Market ◽

Market Prices ◽

Content Type ◽

Market Situation ◽

The Government ◽

Domestic Electricity ◽

Health And Well Being

Significance Electricity companies wanted a near-38% rise amid soaring international market prices, but the ERC wanted to avoid a price shock. In November, the government declared an ‘energy crisis’ at the ERC’s request, thanks to reduced domestic electricity supply and the global market situation, and extended it in December for six months. Impacts Investment in infrastructure and technologies should contribute to economic growth and create jobs. Care will have to be taken that closing established mines and power plants do not depress economies locally and raise unemployment. Rising domestic utility prices will inflict political damage on a fragile government. Phasing out coal will improve air quality and population health and well-being, with knock-ons for healthcare priorities and spending.

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10. The Impact of High Food Prices on Food Security in Cambodia

Poverty and Global Recession in Southeast Asia ◽

10.1355/9789814311205-016 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 279-305

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Prices ◽

High Food ◽

The Impact

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The global value of water in agriculture

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.2005835117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 117 (36) ◽

pp. 21985-21993

Author(s):

Paolo D’Odorico ◽

Davide Danilo Chiarelli ◽

Lorenzo Rosa ◽

Alfredo Bini ◽

David Zilberman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Shadow Price ◽

Water Markets ◽

Irrigated Agriculture ◽

Economic Activities ◽

Political Issue ◽

Market Prices ◽

Human Needs ◽

Water Value ◽

The World ◽

Value Of Water

Major environmental functions and human needs critically depend on water. In regions of the world affected by water scarcity economic activities can be constrained by water availability, leading to competition both among sectors and between human uses and environmental needs. While the commodification of water remains a contentious political issue, the valuation of this natural resource is sometime viewed as a strategy to avoid water waste. Likewise, water markets have been invoked as a mechanism to allocate water to economically most efficient uses. The value of water, however, remains difficult to estimate because water markets and market prices exist only in few regions of the world. Despite numerous attempts at estimating the value of water in the absence of markets (i.e., the “shadow price”), a global spatially explicit assessment of the value of water in agriculture is still missing. Here we propose a data-parsimonious biophysical framework to determine the value generated by water in irrigated agriculture and highlight its global spatiotemporal patterns. We find that in much of the world the actual crop distribution does not maximize agricultural water value.

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