Question

Define buffer stock?

Answer 1

A reserve of a commodity that can be used to offset price fluctuations

Answer 2

A buffer stock scheme (commonly implemented as intervention storage, the "ever-normal granary") is an attempt to use commodity storage for the purposes of stabilising prices in an entire economy or an individual (commodity) market.[1] Specifically, commodities are bought when a surplus exists in the economy, stored, and are then sold from these stores when economic shortages in the economy occur.[1]