Tackling rural poverty, together

Food prices

The current food crisis is a major concern for all partners in development and we are all confronted with the challenge of responding to this dramatic development.

The Platform Board has agreed that the Platform as a network of leading ARD experts and stakeholders will jointly elaborate a Platform Policy Brief on rising food prices. This policy paper is currently being drafted and will be published shortly.

Summary of Platform Policy Brief on Food prices

The Platform Policy Brief is currently being drafted.

Further Reading

•  Implications of Higher Global Food Prices for Poverty in Low-Income Countries, World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper 4594, April 2008
•  Increasing food prices and their impact on development policy, BMZ Factsheet, April 2008
•  Rising food prices: A global crisis - Action needed now to avert poverty and hunger, ODI Briefing Paper 37, April 2008
•  Rising food prices: policy options and World Bank response - Background note for the Development Committee, World Bank, April 2008
•  Rising Food Prices - What should be done? IFPRI Policy paper, April 2008
•  The World Food Situation - New Driving Forces and Required Actions, IFPRI, December 2007
•  A Time of High Prices: An Opportunity For the Rural Poor?, IATP, April 2008
•  Chatham House Briefing Paper: Rising Food Prices, Chatham House, April 2008

Member Policies

Links

 Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on world food situation

 International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) on food

 International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) on rising food prices

 Overseas Development Institute (ODI) on food

 The World Bank on high food prices

 World Food Programme (WFP)

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