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FAO expert meeting on stocks, markets and stability

30-31 January 2014, FAO Headquarters

This expert meeting explored issues surrounding the relationship between stocks and prices, the extent to which that might be exploited to reduce price volatility at national, regional or global levels and the practical and institutional problems which would need to be overcome for such efforts to be successful.

pdf Lessons from recent stocks adjustments, and their measurement