This paper has two purposes. It 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 … to seek a multilateral agreement to desist from changing restrictions on trade when international food prices spike …

countries to assess the impacts of changes in global food prices on poverty in individual countries and for the world as a whole …. The analysis finds that food price increases unrelated to productivity changes in developing countries raise poverty in … the poor spend large shares of their incomes on food and many poor farmers are net buyers of food. In the longer run, two …

In many poor countries, the recent increases in prices of staple foods raise the real incomes of those selling food …, many of whom are relatively poor, while hurting net food consumers, many of whom are also relatively poor. The impacts on …-income countries show that the short-run impacts of higher staple food prices on poverty differ considerably by commodity and by …