India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support … fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the National Food Security Mission in 2007-08 with an objective to raise grain … production by 20 MMT over the subsequent five years. The results: India contained food inflation below 7 per cent in 2007 …

impacts of US agricultural and macroeconomic policies on basic food commodity markets in the United States and their spillover … ; agricultural policy ; environmental economics ; food policy ; food security ; price level …

This paper argues that the effects of the food price crisis of 2007-08 put pressure on two variables that are of … overarching priorities, irrespective of the party in power. In this scenario one would have expected that the food price crisis … apparent puzzle by showing that the negative impacts of the food price increases on consumers was partly counterbalanced by the …