Reflections on food crises past

By C. Timmer, T. D. Cabot. 2010

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Rethinking the global food crisis: The role of trade shocks (2011, background): “In addition to these more observable acts are the unobservable forms of hoarding that individual rice consumers and small rice farmers inevitably do in such situations (Timmer, 2010).”
Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms (2011, background): “Johnson (1975) emphasizes policy responses in his analysis of the 1973-74 price spike, as have most of the available assessments of the 2006-08 shock (Baffes and Haniotis 2010; Bouët and Laborde 2010; Hochman et al. 2010; Timmer 2010; Robles, Torero and von Braun 2008).”
Agricultural labour productivity, food prices and sustainable development impacts and indicators (2013, background): “Timmer (2010) argues that there is a roughly thirty year cycle of world food crises, as falling food prices depress government and private investment in agricultural research, until the rate of growth in demand over-takes supply, triggering a crisis, which kick starts renewed investment in research…”
Food insecurity and conflict dynamics - Causal linkages and Complex feedbacks* (2013, background): “…with advantageous political results: the incumbents in India and Indonesia were both re-elected in 2009, partly because of their success in keeping food prices stable (FAO 2009, Timmer 2010) and China avoided urban unrest at a time of intense international scrutiny due to the Beijing Olympics.”