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 …

Although the potential causes and consequences of recent increases in international food
prices have attracted widespread attention, many existing appraisals are superficial and/or …

Although the potential causes and consequences of recent rising international food prices
have attracted widespread attention, many existing appraisals are superficial and/or …

Have rising food prices hurt the poor, or helped them? So far, all answers to this question
are based on simulation analyses by the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization …

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 …

The dramatic surge in food prices from 2005 to 2008 seriously threatened the world's poor,
who struggle to buy food even under normal circumstances, and led to protests and riots in …

This Briefing Paper examines the causes of rising food prices, expected trends, the likely
impact, and possible policy responses.

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 …

The global food economy is in the midst of a major price reversal. Over the past several
decades, real-world prices of cereals and meats have declined as technological advances …