Recent dramatic increases in food prices are having severe consequences for poor countries and poor people.

New tool for teachers, researchers, practitioners, and others working on global food security: 34 slides on IFPRI's action plan for ending hunger by 2020.

Global agricultural trade has seen tremendous growth since creation of the WTO in 1995 and US agriculture has been a major beneficiary of the rules-based system that the United States and others helped create.

Este informe se centra en cinco medidas que deben adoptarse para que la liberalización del comercio agrícola favorezca a los pobres, y enfatiza la necesidad de combinar la reforma de la política comercial con inversiones en desarrollo para crear t

Brief prepared for the Annual General Meeting of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, Nairobi, October 29, 2003

The prices of maize, wheat, rice, and other crops have more than doubled over the past two years.

After two decades of economic decline and stagnation, Africa has witnessed a remarkable overall economic and agricultural recovery over the last decade.

The Director-General of IFPRI emphasized, in his address, a most important fact: Poverty and hunger are now the world s most serious public health problems.

Past successes in food production have resulted in significant increases in per capita food availability. Global food supplies per person are greater today than ever before.

"This is the Seventeenth EXIM BANK Commencement Day Annual Lecture, delivered at the Yashwantrao Chavan Pratishthan, Gen. Jagannath Bhosale Marg, Mumbai, India 400021; Marc J.

"This presentation explores a policy option that the United States might utilize to reduce the long-run fiscal cost of subsidies and facilitate agricultural trade liberalization, while providing substantial transition support to farmers.