CUSP Lecture - "The Invasion of Ukraine: Impacts on World Agricultural Markets of a Large Production Loss, One Year Later"

When Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, international agricultural commodity prices soared, creating turmoil on markets and raising fears of widespread famine. Using a simulation model to estimate the likely short-term impacts of a significant production loss in Ukraine, researchers at AgriFood Economics Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and Lund University found price effects that were much smaller than the ones observed on the agricultural commodity markets. Reduction in exports from Ukraine was thus not sufficient to explain the soaring agricultural commodity prices. Other explanations contributed to the price surge in 2022. What
were the reasons for this development?

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