The recent spikes in global food-prices in 2007-08 served as a wake-up call to the global
community on the inadequacies of our global food system. Commodity prices doubled, the …

Strong upward trends and increased variability in global food prices over the past two years
have led to concern that hunger and poverty will increase across the world. At the same …

Rising prices have a way of shining a bright light on any sector, no matter how overlooked
previously. The rapid run-up in food prices is no exception. Food may be an essential good …

Dramatic food price increases affected much of the developing world in 2008. Even as food
prices have begun to relax in 2009, this trend is highly uneven across countries, and in …

Policy Perspectives JOHAN FM SWINNEN16 Only a few years ago the widely shared view
was that low food prices were a curse to developing countries and the poor. The following …

The current world food crisis has revealed serious deficiencies in the information available
for The guiding policy responses at global and national levels. This report seeks to support …

Cheap food has been taken for granted for almost 30 years. From their peak in the 1970s
crisis, real food prices steadily declined in the 1980s and 1990s and eventually reached an …

1 Background This paper takes as a starting point an international conference, held in New
York in April 2008, organized by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Global Policy Forum …