the US Civil War, tons of American wheat began to flood across the Atlantic, and food prices plummeted. This cheap foreign …"A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise … and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of …

This paper looks at the impact on Australia’s trade in crops (non-wheat grains and oilseeds) where GM technology has …, the introduction of GM technology into the non-wheat grains and oilseeds sectors will have minimum impact on Australia …

, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans …We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First …) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we estimate the dynamic effects of global food commodity supply …