Agricultural and Applied Economics—Without Apology
I am in College Station, TX tonight and tomorrow for the inaugural meeting of the Midwest Group on African Political Economy (MGAPE). The MGAPE is the brain child of Kim Yi Dionne (see her blog here, and her Twitter feed here) and is a sister organization to the Working Group on African Political Economy on the West Coast.
A post on the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development’s (ICTSD) blog last week discussed a draft confidential report to the G-20 on food prices that was leaked:
“A confidential draft report from leading international agencies (…) aims to lay out ‘a blueprint for a systematic and internationally coordinated response’ to food price volatility in response to an explicit request from G-20 leaders at their November 2010 meeting in Seoul.”
The report, which can be found here, discusses price volatility as follows: