"The findings of this book will be of considerable interest to professionals and policymakers engaged in policy reforms in foreign aid, and will provide an essential one-stop reference for students of development studies, international finance, and economics."--Jacket

Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments responded as they did to the global food crisis of 2007-09 and what their decisions can teach us about policy interventions.