Stabilising cereal prices? Adapting the response to the market

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https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00053

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cereal products, cereals, prices, price stabilization, feeding, food security, domestic markets, world markets, Developing countries, Developed countries, international trade, price policies, agricultural crisis

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Should cereal prices be stabilised? With the Sahel food crisis of 2005, followed by soaring prices on international markets in 2008 and 2010, this is an increasingly pressing issue in national, regional and international policy debates, which address it in a uniform manner. However, the question calls for different analyses and responses depending on whether it concerns domestic markets in developing countries that are subject to food insecurity, domestic markets in developed countries, or international markets.

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Franck Galtier

An economist at CIRAD in the MOISA joint research unit (Markets, Organizations, Institutions and Stakeholders Strategies, https://umr-moisa.cirad.fr/), Franck Galtier works on the relationship between the organisation and performance of agricultural and food markets. In particular, he has studied coffee, cacao and cereal markets at the international level, in Central America and Africa.

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Author's publications

Galtier F., Vindel B., Timmer P. C., 2012. Gérer l'instabilité des prix alimentaires dans les pays en développement : une analyse critique des stratégies et des instruments. Paris, AFD, Collection A savoir 17, 312 p. https://www.afd.fr/fr/gerer-linstabilite-des-prix-alimentaires-dans-les-pays-en-developpement-une-analyse-critique-des-strategies-et-des-instruments

Galtier F., 2011. Que peut faire la communauté internationale pour aider les pays en développement à gérer l’instabilité des prix alimentaires ? Montpellier, CIRAD, 10 p. http://agritrop.cirad.fr/568970/

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Timmer P., 2009. A World Without Agriculture: The Structural Transformation in Historical Perspective. Wendt Memorial Lecture. Washington DC, American Enterprise Institute. ISBN 978-0-8447-4279-3.

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2011-01-01

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Galtier, F. (2011). Stabilising cereal prices? Adapting the response to the market. Perspective, (10), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00053