The global food price crisis
Ensuring food security for all
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Edition Summary:
The global food price crisis is changing the development landscape. People living in poverty spend between 60–80% of their income on food. The spiralling cost of staple foods radically alters their ability to meet basic nutritional requirements and to keep hold of their assets.
The current crisis points to the failure of the global community’s failure to address the pre-existing hunger crisis; 862 million people were hungry before prices went up. Of particular concern is the impact on children. While the short-term impacts of the food crisis are stark, the long-term effects threaten to jeopardise the development of the world’s poorest countries and confront the international community with the imperative of decisive action.
This edition of Global Future examines the numerous drivers of the current crisis – not least the effects of climate change, diversion of food crops to bio-fuels, chronic under-investment in agriculture and small-scale production, unfair international trade rules and flawed development frameworks and agreements.
Contributors to this edition include:
Her Excellency Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic of Liberia
Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Steve Wiggins, Overseas Development Institute
Peter Walker, Tufts University
Stephen Devereux, Institute of Development Studies
Denise Costa Coitinho, former Director of Nutrition for Health and Development for the World Health Organization and currently seconded to the World Food Programme as Coordinator of the REACH: ending child hunger and undernutrition partnership, and Sarah Laughton, Programme Advisor for the United Nations World Food Programme
World Vision staff contributors
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