Analyses
Stocks-to-use ratios as indicators of vulnerability to spikes in global cereal markets
This paper addresses the challenge of how best to utilize available global information in order to strengthen global capacity to issue early warnings of possible price volatility, and thus enhance food security and emergency policy responses to threats to food security. (October 2012) Read more
Futures markets signal change: Interpreting price behaviour
Greater understanding of global markets is one of the main objectives of AMIS. For this reason, identifying indicators which can signal changing market conditions on a timely basis will be among its first outputs. This section briefly describes two indicators, commonly used by participants in the futures and cash markets, which are relevant to importers and exporters. (November 2011) Read more
Review of changes in domestic cereal prices during the global price spikes
During the periods of global food crisis and price spikes that have occurred since mid-2007, there have been reports of widespread price rises across the world. Changes in domestic prices are determined by a number of factors, one of them being prices in the world markets. (November 2011) Read more