What's Driving Food Prices?

By P. Abbott, C. Hurt, W. Tyner. 2008

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Subfields: Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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The Relationship between Oil, Exchange Rates, and Commodity Prices (2009, neutral): “Like Abbott et al. (2008), other studies (Hanson et al.”
Drivers and triggers of international food price spikes and volatility (2014, background): “In the past few years, many studies have investigated the causes of and solutions to soaring food prices (Abbott et al. 2009, 2011; Gilbert 2010; Roache 2010).”
How to Understand High Food Prices (2010, neutral): “Abbott et al. (2008) emphasize the importance of this factor.”
Recent Global Food Price Shocks: Causes, Consequences and Lessons for African Governments and Donors (2011, background): “Abbott et al (2008) and Diouf (2008) highlighted a couple of factors, often presented as plausible components of the commodity price spike, that may have been over estimated.”
Long-Term Drivers of Food Prices (2013, background): “Numerous other authors have highlighted the role of exchange rates during the post-2004 food price increases, including Abbott, Hurt, and Tyner (2008), Mitchell (2008), and Gilbert (2010).”
The Long-Run Impact of Energy Prices on World Agricultural Markets: The Role of Macro-Economic Linkages (2009, background): “The rising crude oil price certainly contributed to this development by stimulating biofuel demand (Abbott et al., 2008).”
World oil prices and agricultural commodity prices: Evidence from an emerging market (2011, background): “Abbott et al. (2008, 2009) reduce the number of these factors to three key determinants: excess demand, the value of US dollar, and the energy-agriculture linkage.”
Volatility spillover between oil and agricultural commodity markets (2013, background): “Many researchers indicate that increasing oil prices is the main factor behind the recent major demand shock experienced by agricultural markets (e.g. Abbott et al., 2008; Baffes, 2007; Chang and Su, 2010; Collins, 2008; Mitchell, 2008; Rosegrant et al., 2008; Yang et al., 2008).”
Three bubbles and a panic: An explanatory review of recent food commodity price events (2009, background): “A longer term view of the stock/use ratio can be found in Trostle (2008), Mitchell (2008a,b) and Abbott et al. (2008), who all plot this ratio as a percentage for a longer period.”