food price volatility

The UN’s Committee on World Food Security today showed that it is up to its role as the central body of the global governance on food security, agriculture and nutrition. However a number of governments showed that they are not yet ready to address the structural causes of the broken food system.

Urgent action needed by governments to tackle root causes of crisis at next week's UN Committee for World Food Security

Oxfam’s GROW campaign policy adviser Luca Chinotti said:

Food prices are a matter of life and death to many in the developing world.

A new interactive map published by Oxfam today shows how poor communities across the world are being hurt by high and volatile food prices. The ‘food price pressure points map’ provides a global snapshot of the impacts of the global food price crisis.

The G20 must scrap their most damaging biofuel policies and demand more open information about food stocks as part of urgent measures needed to tackle global food price volatility.

Following the dramatic food price increases in 2007–08, an estimated 150 million people joined the ranks of those who go hungry.