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 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 …

The downward trend of real food prices for the past 25 years came to an end when world
prices started rising in 2006 and escalated into a surge of price inflation in 2007 and 2008 …

" Part of the difficulty in responding to the food crisis is the lack of credible and up-todate
data on the impacts of food prices on poor people and on the effects of policy responses …

This paper first discusses the sources and features of current increases in food prices as
well as the impacts of high food prices on the poor. It then presents proposed policy actions …

The recent increases in the price of food, especially of staples, have reduced access to food
for many people-particularly the poor-in a large number of developing countries. 1 This has …

For several months now, worldwide food prices have exploded. This has had severe impacts
on many developing countries, ranging from increases in poverty and hunger and problems …

1. Introduction soaring food prices pose problems for three groups. first, the poor whose
ability to buy food is undermined. second, governments of low-income countries facing …

Political economy lessons from the world food crisis 2007-08 Page 1 1 Political economy
lessons from the world food crisis 2007-08 Sarah Maas and Alan Matthews1 Abstract This …

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 …