COMMODITY RISK
May 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN INTERNATIONAL Task Force on Commodity Risk Management (ITF) is to expand the use of innovative market mechanisms to manage the risk posed by the volatile pricing to key small-scale producers of certain foodstuffs in developing countries. The World Bank-associated body wants to stabilise production in commodity markets such as cocoa, cotton, coffee, wheat, soybeans and corn, where from 1983-2003, prices of many commodities have fluctuated from below 50% to above 150% of their average prices. At a meeting in Interlaken, Switzerland, the taskforce ...
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