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 …

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 …

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 …

" 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 …

An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of
agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to …

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 …

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 …

The worst food crisis since 1974 broke out in 2007-08. Higher world market prices of food
commodities (especially wheat, rice, soya and maize) sparked an unprecedented increase …

The food crisis of 2007–8 highlighted the need for a concerted global effort to tackle hunger
and food insecurity. For most of the previous thirty years, food prices were generally low and …