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...

European official development assistance to Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries increased sharply after 2011, ostensibly in support of the social, economic, and above all political changes demanded by the Arab uprisings. The subsequent turn to development policies driven by...