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.

The political economy of food price policy: an overview / Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- International to domestic price transmission in fourteen developing countries during the 2007-8 food crisis / Kenneth Baltzer -- A cacophony of policy responses: evidence from fourteen countries during the 2007-8...

Most Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries have accepted, in principle at least, the 50-year-old commitment of contributing 0.7 per cent of gross national income to supporting the development of countries in the Global South. But what if all countries made a universal...