This volume provides an overview of the key issues surrounding food prices volatility, focusing primarily on drivers, long-term implications of instability and its impacts on food chains and consumers.

1. Scope and Objectives Alberto Garrido, Robert M'Barek, Isabel Bardají, Miranda Meuwissen, Cristian Morales-Opazo and José María Sumpsi Part 1: Literature Reviews and New Findings 2. Volatility in the After-crisis Period: A Literature Review of Recent Empirical Research Bernhard Brümmer, Olaf Korn, Kristina Schlüßler, Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani and Alberto Saucedo 3. Has Agricultural Price Volatility Increased since 2007? Bernhard Brümmer, Ayca Donmez, Tinoush Jamali Jagdhani, Olaf Korn, Emiliano Magrini and Kristina Schlüssler 4. Medium-term Drivers of Food Markets Variability and Uncertainty Sergio Rene Araujo Enciso, Maria Blanco, Marco Artavia, Fabien Ramos, Robert M'Barek, Ben Van Doorslaer, Lucian Stanca and Ayca Donmez 5. Transparency of Food Pricing in the European Union Steve McCorriston and Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel 6. A Review of the Role of Contextual Factors on Price Volatility Transmission in Food Supply Chains Tsion Taye Assefa, Miranda Meuwissen and Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink 7. Impacts of Increased Food Prices and Volatility on Consumers and Households Sol García-Germán, Cristian Morales-Opazo, Alberto Garrido, Emiliano Magrini, Jean Balié and Isabel Bardají Part 2: The Views of Some Stakeholders 8. Are Derivatives Introducing Distortions in Agricultural Markets? Adamo Uboldi 9. The View of Farmers: German Pig Producers Torsten Staack 10. Mitigating the Effects of Agricultural Price Volatility: A European Cereal Grower's Point of View Nicolas Ferenczi 11. Milk and Dairy Products' Price Volatility:The View of a Large EU Cooperative Wim Kloosterboer 12. Coping with Food Price Volatility: The Contribution of Local Food Reserves Gabriel Pons Cortès and Itzíar Gómez Carrasco Part 3: Policy Discussion and Conclusions 13. Assessment of National Policies in Developing Countries to Combat and Mitigate the Effects of Agricultural Markets Excessive Price Volatility Mulat Demeke and Jean Balie 14. Price Volatility Perceptions, Management Strategies and Policy Options in EU Food Supply Chains Tsion Taye Assefa, Miranda Meuwissen and Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink 15. Book Summary and ULYSSES Project's Conclusions Plamen Mishev, Alberto Garrido, Nedka Ivanova and Milkana Mochurova