CSFI Futures Series: Dislocation in Agricultural Markets

Why you should watch: Our eminent panel discusses the series of shocks to the global commodity markets, with a focus on agriculture, including high energy and fertiliser prices, trade restrictions, soaring inflation, climate change, geopolitical tensions and many more. What needs to happen to mitigate the effects of aforementioned shocks? How can future policy support consumers and enhance the efficiency of farmers’ response? Is the futures market helping or hindering the situation? Tune in to listen to our panellists’ opinions.

The next session in this series will be on Metals Futures. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to receive updates on future CSFI Futures Series episodes.

Moderator: Martina Garcia (Chief Executive Officer, CSFI)

John Baffes is currently a member of the World Bank’s Prospects Group, heads the Commodities Unit and is in charge of the Commodity Markets Outlook, a World Bank publication focusing on commodity market analysis and price forecasts. John’s experience spans several regions and units, including Latin America, South Asia, East Africa, Evaluation, and Research.

El Mamoun Amrouk is a Senior Economist with FAO's Trade and Market Division in Rome. He is a specialist in agriculture commodities who authored numerous reports, case studies and articles in the field, with a focus on both developed and developing nations. He is responsible for monitoring food markets and trying to understand the drivers for these markets.

Krista Swanson is a research specialist for Gardner Agricultural Policy Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work centres on analysing how federal policy impacts agriculture at the farm level. She earned a master’s degree in agricultural economics from the University of Illinois and since then has worked in various roles in agricultural management.

If you have any, please leave your feedback in the comments below. This will allow us to produce a better product for future video projects.

Sign up/subscribe to our YouTube channel (it's free, easy and convenient) to keep up to date on what the CSFI will be producing in the near future.

You can also follow us here:

www.csfi.org
Twitter: @CSFI1
Instagram: @CSFI1

Produced/edited/thumbnail/SEO by Alex Treptow