When food prices spike in countries with large numbers of poor people, hunger and malnutrition are very likely to … often take the form of direct interventions in the market to stabilize food prices, which goes against most international … advice to rely on safety nets and world trade. Despite the limitations of food price stabilization policies, they are …

increased fertilizer use has driven much of the productivity growth rather than the adoption of improvements in seeds and … fertilizer amounts and the marginal returns to fertilizer use. The results demonstrate the key changes behind this silent maize … fertilizer. …

agricultural yields and low food prices. Critical to this success has been sustained public sector investment combined with a …

This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods … during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints …, than are designed to provide social protection for the poor when international food prices spike. It also examines the …