{"id":7674,"date":"2012-10-29T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2012-10-28T18:10:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T22:10:47","slug":"slides-of-my-presentation-at-the-2012-mcgill-global-food-security-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7674","title":{"rendered":"Can High Food Prices and Volatility Be Managed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Montreal two weeks ago to take part in the <a title=\"2012 McGill Global Food Security Conference\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/globalfoodsecurity\/conference\/2012\" target=\"_blank\">2012 McGill Global Food Security Conference<\/a>,\u00a0presenting in a session titled &#8220;Can High Food Prices and Volatility Be Managed?&#8221; <a title=\"Bellemare Presentation\" href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bellemare_presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> are my slides (document opens a .pdf file).<\/p>\n<p>My answer to the question posed by the session&#8217;s theme was:\u00a0\u201cYes, but high food prices and food price volatility are different problems requiring different policy instruments,\u201d and most of my presentation was dedicated to explaining (and then showing empirical examples of) how &#8220;food price volatility&#8221; is <em>not<\/em> the same thing as &#8220;high food prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Montreal two weeks ago to take part in the 2012 McGill Global Food Security Conference,\u00a0presenting in a session titled &#8220;Can High Food&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/7674\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can High Food Prices and Volatility Be Managed?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,55,26,12,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-economics","category-food","category-policy","category-social-unrest","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-1ZM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}