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With agricultural protection still high in many OECD countries, an important mandate of the OECD is to produce analysis on trade impacts and the implications of reform. Read more ...
Key work includes:
> OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook for commodity production and trade
> Standards for seeds, tractors, forest material and fruit and vegetables
> Biofuels and bioenergy
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08-Feb-2012
Market thinness, where there are few buying or selling offers, can contribute to price volatility. Contrary to general assumptions, agricultural commodity markets have not become 'thinner', according to this study of trade in selected commodities from 1970 to 2010.
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14-Dec-2011
Low stocks to use ratios of recent years were one of a number of contributory factors to the grain price spike in 2007-08. However, the experience with past international commodity agreements (ICAs) with price band provisions and stockholding obligations suggests that they had only limited success in reducing the volatility of the prices they set out to stabilise, as well as being prone to many other operational problems.
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