Agricultural Supply Chains and the Challenge of Price Risk

by John Williams

Book Overview

This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk. The problems of integration and price risk are interwoven in agricultural supply chains with production and supply risk as well as hoarding. However, without supply chain integration through commercial trade markets there can be no forward market upon which forward transactions and the management of price risk can be based...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415827000
• ISBN13: 9780415827003
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"