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Journal Articles Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Year : 2022

Forecasting Global Maize Prices From Regional Productions

Prévision des prix mondiaux du maïs à partir des productions régionales

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This study analyses the quality of six regression algorithms in forecasting the monthly price of maize in its primary international trading market, using publicly available data of agricultural production at a regional scale. The forecasting process is done between one and twelve months ahead, using six different forecasting techniques. Three (CART, RF, and GBM) are tree-based machine learning techniques that capture the relative influence of maize-producing regions on global maize price variations. Additionally, we consider two types of linear models—standard multiple linear regression and vector autoregressive (VAR) model. Finally, TBATS serves as an advanced time-series model that holds the advantages of several commonly used time-series algorithms. The predictive capabilities of these six methods are compared by cross-validation. We find RF and GBM have superior forecasting abilities relative to the linear models. At the same time, TBATS is more accurate for short time forecasts when the time horizon is shorter than three months. On top of that, all models are trained to assess the marginal contribution of each producing region to the most extreme price shocks that occurred through the past 60 years of data in both positive and negative directions, using Shapley decompositions. Our results reveal a strong influence of North-American yield variation on the global price, except for the last months preceding the new-crop season.
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hal-03764942 , version 1 (14-09-2023)

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Rotem Zelingher, David Makowski. Forecasting Global Maize Prices From Regional Productions. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022, 6, 10 p. ⟨10.3389/fsufs.2022.836437⟩. ⟨hal-03764942⟩
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