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Sep 2023
This webinar exams whether increased concentration necessarily leads to increased market power or simply reflects the underlying economic efficiencies controlling value chains. It discusses whether increased market concentration is a food security concern and if so, what should be the role of international institutions and organizations in regulating markets?
Speakers: Javier Blas (Bloomberg L.P.), Swithun Still (STILL GRAIN), James MacDonald (University of Maryland), Delphine Leconte-Demarsy (AMIS)
Moderators: Joe Glauber (AMIS) and Seth Meyer (USDA)
Dec 2013
Since 2000, global production of ethanol, the most widely used transport renewable fuel, more than quadrupled, reaching in 2011 a total of 84.6 billion litres. This paper examines the nature [...]
Oct 2013
Feed use accounts for about a third of world consumption of cereals. Despite its significance, feed utilization is a largely unknown component in supply and demand balances. Within the framework [...]
Oct 2013
Feed use accounts for about a third of world consumption of cereals. Despite its significance, feed utilization is a largely unknown component in supply and demand balances. Within the framework [...]
Oct 2013
The tide of financial flows into commodities markets, seemingly unstoppable over the past decade, appears to be ebbing. The simplest explanation for the cooling commodities enthusiasm is a significant price [...]
Oct 2012
AMIS Research Paper No. 1 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 [...]