Short-Term Risks for Food and Nutrition Security — Causes, Impacts, and Responses

Fast & furious: Do psychological and legal factors affect commodity price volatility?

“…Price volatility could discourage investments and reduce economic and political stability. Food price volatility, for example, was judged accountable for the political unrest experienced by several countries (Bellemare, 2015; Etienne, Irwin, & Garcia, 2018; Ianchovichina, Loening, & Wood, 2014; Ivanic, Martin, & Zaman, 2012; World Bank, 2008), for the economic adversity among the poor and malnutrition among children in developing countries (Braun, 2020; von Braun, Algieri, & Kalkuhl, 2014; Brockhaus, Haile, & von Braun, 2018; Kalkuhl, von Braun, & Torero, 2016; Lukanima & Swaray, 2014). Furthermore, price volatility negatively affects employment, income, trade balance, inflation rate, tax revenue and business cycles (Silveira, dos Santos Maciel, Mattos, & Ballini, 2017).…”