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dc.contributor.authorBrobakk, Jostein Tapper
dc.contributor.authorAlmås, Reidar
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-03T13:15:30Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-05T09:42:21Z
dc.date.available2016-02-03T13:15:30Z
dc.date.available2016-02-05T09:42:21Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food 2011, 18(3):237-280nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0798-1759
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2376023
dc.description-nb_NO
dc.description.abstractIn early 2007 food prices started to increase dramatically, creating more hunger, social unrest, political protests, and a debate on causes and cures. According to the FAO, the number of people getting less food than necessary reached 1 billion. After a century of declining food prices, increased productivity and relative stability several curves started to shift. Due to production growth levelling out and a steady increase in the global demand for food, in addition to policy changes in the food sector, public food stocks declined and the market situation became tighter. As a result, the global food market became more vulnerable to external shocks, like negative impact from climate-related changes, growing demand from the bio-fuel sector, and speculation in food commodities. By focusing on supply and demand forces in the food market, the growth of bio-fuel production, and financial speculation, we ask what caused food prices to peak in 2008, and which factors are the most important in explaining the events. In our view, deregulations within the financial sector led to extreme levels of financial capital entering the food commodity market, contributed to prices increasing more and faster than can be explained by supply and demand forces alone. Even if the growth in bio-fuel production by many is held as a climate change mitigation measure, and production short-falls over the last decade are caused by severe weather events, we do not believe that climate change directly or indirectly caused food prices to peak in 2008nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Foodnb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse-IngenBearbeidelse 3.0 Norge*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/no/*
dc.subjectfood pricesnb_NO
dc.subjectbio-fuel productionnb_NO
dc.subjectclimate changenb_NO
dc.subjectglobal food marketnb_NO
dc.titleIncreasing food and energy prices in 2008: What were the causes and who was to blame?nb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.date.updated2016-02-03T13:15:29Z
dc.source.pagenumber236–259nb_NO
dc.source.volume18nb_NO
dc.source.journalInternational Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Foodnb_NO
dc.source.issue3nb_NO
dc.identifier.cristin908912


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