Projektnummer

0055627

Zusammenfassung

The project investigates wheat markets in the Caucasus and Central Asia and the major supplier countries of this region, namely Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine (KRU) against the background of the ongoing global food crisis. Long-term rising prices and increasing price volatility on the world markets for agricultural raw materials have considerably affected the countries in Central Asia and the Caucasus. However, up until today there is nearly no empirical evidence on how wheat markets in this region work and how prices are formed. The present research project aims to close this research...