Understanding Food Inflation
Dr. Shyma Jose, Dr. Ranjana Roy, Dr. Ashok Gulati
About the Book
Understanding price dynamics in food commodities, including the factors influencing demand and supply, is critical for policy actions aimed at achieving price stability.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of price dynamics and value chains within India’s agricultural sector, focusing on key commodities that significantly impact food inflation and market stability. Employing robust methodological frameworks, including monthly balance sheets and various forecasting techniques, the book examines the factors driving price formation across livestock products, cereals, pulses, vegetables, and fruits, while also providing medium- to short-term forecasts.
By addressing commodity-specific challenges, the analysis highlights inefficiencies within agricultural value chains and their role in exacerbating price volatility.
Drawing from extensive research, the book offers targeted policy recommendations aimed at addressing these challenges and enhancing the efficiency of agricultural value chains. The findings emphasize strategies to stabilize prices, improve supply chain resilience, and strengthen the linkages between production and markets. This book serves as an essential resource for policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders seeking to mitigate food inflation and foster a more efficient and stable agricultural economy in India.
About the Author/ Editors
Dr. Shyma Jose is an Assistant Professor at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University, and was a former Research fellow at ICRIER. Her research focuses on nutrition, agriculture, food security, poverty, employment, and labour market conditions. She holds a PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, where her doctoral thesis explored informal employment and decent work conditions in the garment industry. She has published extensively in national and international journals and contributed to book chapters on topics such as food and nutritional security, gender disparities in malnutrition, education and the informalization of the workforce.
Dr. Ranjana Roy is currently Senior Fellow at ICRIER. She has published in peer reviewed journals, books, and widely circulated newspapers on poverty, malnutrition, agriculture market, and livelihood sustainability of farmers. Her Ph.D. thesis was on “Causes and Impact of Changing Consumption Pattern in India for the Period 1993-94 to 2009-10: A State Level Study” from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her M.Phil. dissertation on “Change in Grain Consumption Pattern in Rural India: Analysis for the period of 1993-94 and 2004-05”.
Dr. Ashok Gulati is currently Distinguished Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to this, he was a Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Government of India (2011-14). He is
currently a Member of the Eleventh Audit Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and an Independent Director of the Board of Directors of Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KMBL) an Godrej Agrovet Limited. He has 18 books to his credit on Indian and Asian Agriculture, besides numerous research papers in national and international Journals. He did his M.A. and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics.
Contents in Detail
1. Understanding Food Inflation in India: An Introduction
Ashok Gulati, Ranjana Roy and Shyma Jose.
2. Methodological Framework for Understanding Food Inflation.
Shyma Jose, Manish Kumar Prasad, Sabarni Chowdhury and Ashok Gulati.
3. Understanding Livestock Inflation in India: A Study of Milk, Poultry Meat and Egg
Shyma Jose, Manish Kumar Prasad, Sabarni Chowdhury, Binod B. Bhoi, Vimal Kishore, Himani Shekhar and Ashok Gulati.
4. Understanding Cereal Inflation in India: A Study of Rice and Wheat.
Shyma Jose, Raya Das, Manish Kumar Prasad, Ranjana Roy, Sanchit Gupta and Ashok Gulati.
5. Pulse Inflation in India: A Study of Gram, Tur and Moong.
Shyma Jose, Sanchit Gupta, Manish Kumar Prasad, Sandip Das, Asish Thomas George, Thangzason Sonna, D. Suganthi and Ashok Gulati.
6. Vegetables Inflation in India: A Study of Tomato, Onion and Potato (Top)
Ranjana Roy, Sanchit Gupta, Harsh Wardhan, Suvendu Sarkar, Soumasree Tewari, Rohan Bansal, Shelja Bhatia and Ashok Gulati.
7. Price Dynamics and Value Chain of Fruits in India: A Study of Grapes, Bananas, and Mangoes.
Raya Das, Ranjana Roy, Sanchit Gupta, Sanjib Bordoloi, Rishabh Kumar, Renjith Mohan, and Ashok Gulati.
8. Summary and Way Forward Ashok Gulati, Shyma Jose, Ranjana Roy.
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2025 |
| Number of Pages | 400 |
| ISBN |
9789332706637 |
Academic Foundation (AF), based in New Delhi, is India’s leading independent publisher of academic/scholarly books in Social Sciences, specialising in Economics—Development Economics and Indian Economy in particular, and allied subjects.
About the Book
Understanding price dynamics in food commodities, including the factors influencing demand and supply, is critical for policy actions aimed at achieving price stability.
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of price dynamics and value chains within India’s agricultural sector, focusing on key commodities that significantly impact food inflation and market stability. Employing robust methodological frameworks, including monthly balance sheets and various forecasting techniques, the book examines the factors driving price formation across livestock products, cereals, pulses, vegetables, and fruits, while also providing medium- to short-term forecasts.
By addressing commodity-specific challenges, the analysis highlights inefficiencies within agricultural value chains and their role in exacerbating price volatility.
Drawing from extensive research, the book offers targeted policy recommendations aimed at addressing these challenges and enhancing the efficiency of agricultural value chains. The findings emphasize strategies to stabilize prices, improve supply chain resilience, and strengthen the linkages between production and markets. This book serves as an essential resource for policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders seeking to mitigate food inflation and foster a more efficient and stable agricultural economy in India.
About the Author/ Editors
Dr. Shyma Jose is an Assistant Professor at Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University, and was a former Research fellow at ICRIER. Her research focuses on nutrition, agriculture, food security, poverty, employment, and labour market conditions. She holds a PhD in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, where her doctoral thesis explored informal employment and decent work conditions in the garment industry. She has published extensively in national and international journals and contributed to book chapters on topics such as food and nutritional security, gender disparities in malnutrition, education and the informalization of the workforce.
Dr. Ranjana Roy is currently Senior Fellow at ICRIER. She has published in peer reviewed journals, books, and widely circulated newspapers on poverty, malnutrition, agriculture market, and livelihood sustainability of farmers. Her Ph.D. thesis was on “Causes and Impact of Changing Consumption Pattern in India for the Period 1993-94 to 2009-10: A State Level Study” from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She did her M.Phil. dissertation on “Change in Grain Consumption Pattern in Rural India: Analysis for the period of 1993-94 and 2004-05”.
Dr. Ashok Gulati is currently Distinguished Professor at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER). Prior to this, he was a Chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP), Government of India (2011-14). He is
currently a Member of the Eleventh Audit Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and an Independent Director of the Board of Directors of Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited (KMBL) an Godrej Agrovet Limited. He has 18 books to his credit on Indian and Asian Agriculture, besides numerous research papers in national and international Journals. He did his M.A. and Ph.D. from Delhi School of Economics.
Contents in Detail
1. Understanding Food Inflation in India: An Introduction
Ashok Gulati, Ranjana Roy and Shyma Jose.
2. Methodological Framework for Understanding Food Inflation.
Shyma Jose, Manish Kumar Prasad, Sabarni Chowdhury and Ashok Gulati.
3. Understanding Livestock Inflation in India: A Study of Milk, Poultry Meat and Egg
Shyma Jose, Manish Kumar Prasad, Sabarni Chowdhury, Binod B. Bhoi, Vimal Kishore, Himani Shekhar and Ashok Gulati.
4. Understanding Cereal Inflation in India: A Study of Rice and Wheat.
Shyma Jose, Raya Das, Manish Kumar Prasad, Ranjana Roy, Sanchit Gupta and Ashok Gulati.
5. Pulse Inflation in India: A Study of Gram, Tur and Moong.
Shyma Jose, Sanchit Gupta, Manish Kumar Prasad, Sandip Das, Asish Thomas George, Thangzason Sonna, D. Suganthi and Ashok Gulati.
6. Vegetables Inflation in India: A Study of Tomato, Onion and Potato (Top)
Ranjana Roy, Sanchit Gupta, Harsh Wardhan, Suvendu Sarkar, Soumasree Tewari, Rohan Bansal, Shelja Bhatia and Ashok Gulati.
7. Price Dynamics and Value Chain of Fruits in India: A Study of Grapes, Bananas, and Mangoes.
Raya Das, Ranjana Roy, Sanchit Gupta, Sanjib Bordoloi, Rishabh Kumar, Renjith Mohan, and Ashok Gulati.
8. Summary and Way Forward Ashok Gulati, Shyma Jose, Ranjana Roy.
| Publisher | AF Press |
| Publication Date | 2025 |
| Number of Pages | 400 |
| ISBN |
9789332706637 |
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