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Which instruments best tackle food price instability in developing countries?

09/06/2011

9 pages long

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The food crisis of 2007–08 and the urban riots that ensued in some 40 developing countries placed the question of food price instability at the heart of policy debates. Since the 1980s, the prevailing idea has been that the best solution is managing risk without ‘affecting prices’ through private instruments (such as crop insurance, futures […]

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The long-term implications of the 2007–08 commodity-price boom

08/06/2011

8 pages long

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The recent commodity-price boom was one of the longest and broadest of the post-World War II period, and, not unexpectedly, it reignited discussions about resource scarcity as well as proposals to ‘manage’ reminiscent of the 1970s. This contribution looks at the factors that are likely to shape commodity markets in the longer term and concludes […]

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The links between food security and seed security: facts and fiction that guide response

06/06/2011

15 pages long

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The food price crisis has led to assumptions that food price rises are due to inadequate food production, and that such food insecurity is linked to seed insecurity. Hence, in response to high food prices, seed resources worth hundreds of millions of US dollars are being shipped into vulnerable farming systems across the world. This […]

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Gender and the global food-price crisis

05/06/2011

4 pages long

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This article argues that it is imperative to take gender into consideration when evaluating the impact of the global food-price crisis and developing crisis-related policies. Consideration of gender is important, given the key role that women play in agriculture, the disproportionate impact that the crisis has on women, and the potential role that women can […]

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Understanding and responding to the links between conflict and hunger

04/06/2011

6 pages long

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Rising food prices in the late 2000s sparked protests, sometimes violent, around the globe. These public expressions of outrage were only the tip of the iceberg. Many countries have a legacy of food wars. In sub-Saharan Africa, at least 14 countries faced severe food insecurity as a result of conflict, civil strife, forced displacement, or […]

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Subsistence farming as a safety net for food-price shocks

03/06/2011

8 pages long

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Governments need the capacity to manage price instability and its social consequences; but in countries where people suffer most, they are least able to respond, because of limited fiscal and institutional resources. This article argues that policies used by middle and high-income countries are unsuitable for poorer, agricultural countries; it recommends instead that these nations […]

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Global food-price shocks and poor people – an overview

02/06/2011

11 pages long

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Hunger has been on the rise since the mid-1990s, due to a variety of factors, including a lack of policy attention and a sense of complacency generated by long-term real declines in food prices. Food prices rose sharply after 2006, and there is considerable controversy over the reasons why. Analysts have pointed to a number of […]

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Case study

The Struggle for a Pro-Poor Food Policy in Guatemala

31/05/2011

4 documents

6 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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The 2008 food price crisis had a devastating impact on poor Guatemalans, pushing an estimated 450,000 people into poverty. This was followed by a year of widespread crop failure and a subsequent food emergency, affecting up to 2.5 million people. Hunger is endemic in Guatemala, which has the highest rates of child malnutrition in Latin […]

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Briefing note

Averting Tomorrow’s Global Food Crisis: The European Union’s role in delivering food justice in a resource-constrained world

31/05/2011

3 documents

12 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Global food prices will more than double within 20 years, as a new age of crisis forces the collapse of our global food system. These price rises will push millions into poverty in a world where, already, one in seven goes hungry. As the world’s largest economy, the world’s biggest aid donor, and an aspiring […]

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New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

10/11/2010

11 pages long

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New agribusiness investments mean wholesale sell-out for women farmers

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Globalisation impacts on local land markets and land-use; land transaction costs affect food prices; and the combined effect is particularly damaging to women who produce food and who put food on the table for their families. This paper examines three issues: what is attracting investors and market speculators into the farm and land sectors? What […]

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