• Food security under stress from price volatility, agricultural neglect, climate change and recession
  May 11 2009. Joachim von Braun. IPC Spring Seminar Salzburg, May 11, 2009.
  (PDF 521K)
• Food security under stress from price volatility, agricultural neglect, climate change and recession
  May 11 2009. Joachim von Braun. IPC Spring Seminar Salzburg, May 11, 2009.
  (PDF 521K)
• Threats to Security Related to Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources – What to Do?
  March 26 2009. Joachim von Braun. Strategic forum at European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS).
  English (PDF 170K)  |  Deutsch (PDF 178K)
• Local Markets, Local Varieties: Rising Food Prices and Small Farmers' Access to Seed
  March 2009. Melinda Smale, Marc J. Cohen, and Latha Nagarajan. IFPRI Issue Brief.
• Eliminating Drastic Food Price Spikes – a three pronged approach for reserves
  March 2009. Joachim von Braun, Justin Lin and Maximo Torero. Note for Discussion.
• Implementing Physical and Virtual Food Reserves to Protect the Poor and Prevent Market Failure
  February 2009. Joachim Von Braun and Maximo Torero. IFPRI Policy Brief.
• When Speculation Matters
  February 2009. Miguel Robles, Maximo Torero, and Joachim von Braun. IFPRI Issue Brief.
• Running Out: The Global Food Crisis
  January 2009. Foreign Policy Association. Great Decisions Television Series program featuring Joachim Von Braun.
  
• Fresh Solutions for Food Security
  January 2009. Webcast from the World Economic Forum.
• Food and Financial Crises: Implications for Agriculture and the Poor
  December 2008. Joachim von Braun. IFPRI Food Policy Report.
  (PDF 972K)
• Local Impacts of a Global Crisis: Food Price Transmission and Poverty Impacts in Ghana
  December 2008. Godsway Cudjoe, Clemens Breisinger, and Xinshen Diao. IFPRI Discussion Paper.
  (PDF 370K)
• Anatomy of a Crisis: The Causes and Consequences of Surging Food Prices
  December 2008. Derek Headey and Shenggen Fan. IFPRI Discussion Paper.
  (PDF 473K)
• Has the Food Crisis Abated?
  December 15, 2008. Q&A with Joachim von Braun. Scientific American.
• The food crisis isn't over
  December 11, 2008. Joachim von Braun. Nature, 456, 701.
  [Link is to abstract. Full text of the article available with paid subscription only. Please contact IFPRI-Library@cgiar.org for more information.]
• Agricultural Economics: Issue on the world food crisis
  November 2008. Volume 39 Issue s1, Pages 373-550.
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• Sustaining and Accelerating Africa's Agricultural Growth Recovery in the Context of Changing Global Food Prices
  November 2008. Ousmane Badiane. IFPRI Policy Brief.
  (PDF 82K)
• The Food Crisis: What Happened and What Should Be Done?
  October 10, 2008. Chair: Joachim von Braun. IMF-WB Program of Seminars.
  Video on IMF website
• Global Food Crises: Monitoring and Assessing Impact to Inform Policy Responses
  October 2008. Todd Benson, Nicholas Minot, John Pender, Miguel Robles, Joachim von Braun. IFPRI Issue Brief.
  (PDF 568K)
• Helping Women Respond to the Global Food Price Crisis
  October 2008. Agnes Quisumbing, Ruth Meinzen-Dick, and Lucy Bassett with contributions by Michael Usnick, Lauren Pandolfelli, Cheryl Morden, and Harold Alderman. IFPRI Policy Brief.
  (PDF 78K)
• Responding to the Global Food Crisis: Three Perspectives
  September 2008. Joachim von Braun, Josette Sheeran, and Namanga Ngongi. IFPRI Annual Report Essays.
  (PDF 1.8M)
• Global Food Crises: Monitoring and Assessing Impact to Inform Policy Responses
  September 2008. Todd Benson, Nicholas Minot, John Pender, Miguel Robles, Joachim von Braun. IFPRI Food Policy Report.
  (PDF 698K)
• Food Prices and the AIDS Response: How they are linked, and what can be done
  August 2008. Stuart Gillespie. RENEWAL Brief.
  (PDF 154K)
• High Food Prices and the Impacts on the Poor in Latin America
  July 21, 2008. Joachim von Braun. Presentation at Inter-American Dialogue.
  (PDF 660K)
• The Food Crisis and its Implications for Agricultural Development
  July 16, 2008. Nicholas Minot. Testimony before the U.S. House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.
  (PDF 2.6M)
• G8 Leaders' Statement on Global Food Security: Comments by Joachim von Braun, IFPRI Director General
  July 11, 2008. Joachim von Braun
  
  (PDF 137K)
• Speculation and World Food Markets
  July 2008. IFPRI Forum.
• Physical and Virtual Global Food Reserves to Protect the Poor and Prevent Market Failure
  June 2008. Joachim von Braun and Maximo Torero. IFPRI Policy Brief.
  (PDF 142K)
• Investing in Agriculture to Overcome the World Food Crisis and Reduce Poverty and Hunger
  June 2008. Shenggen Fan and Mark W. Rosegrant. IFPRI Policy Brief.
  English (PDF 81K)  |  Español (PDF 147K)
• Biofuels, International Food Prices, and the Poor
  June 12, 2008. Joachim von Braun. Testimony before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  (PDF 199K)
• Food Summit: Some Progress But More Needs to be Done
  June 6, 2008. Press Statement by Joachim von Braun.
  
  (PDF 141K)
• Implications of the Food Crisis for Long-term Agricultural Development
  June 5, 2008. Nicholas Minot. Statement at House Hunger Caucus Briefing.
  (PDF 123K)
• From Intentions to Implementation
  June 3, 2008. Press Statement by Joachim von Braun.
  (PDF 136K)
• High Food Prices: The What, Who, and How of Proposed Policy Actions
  May 2008. Joachim von Braun with Akhter Ahmed, Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere, Shenggen Fan, Ashok Gulati, John Hoddinott, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Mark W. Rosegrant, Marie Ruel, Maximo Torero, Teunis van Rheenen, and Klaus von Grebmer. Policy Brief.
  English: (PDF 218K)  |  German: (PDF 184K)
  Chinese: (PDF 1.8M)  |   French: (PDF 242K)
  Spanish: (PDF 350K)
• Rising World Food Prices: How to Address the Problem?
  May 2008. Joachim von Braun. China Programme, Vol 12, No 3.
• Español: El aumento mundial en el precio de los alimentos: ¿cómo enfrentar el problema?
  July 2008. Joachim von Braun. Puentes, Volumen 9, Número 3.
• High Food Prices
  May 28, 2008. IFPRI Policy Seminar with Joachim von Braun, Mark Rosegrant, Maximo Torero, and John Hoddinott.
• Global Food Crisis
  May 20, 2008. Special Meeting of ECOSOC. Keynote address by Joachim von Braun.
  
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• Global Response Needed to Rising Food Prices
  May 16, 2008. IFPRI Press Statement
  
  English (PDF 131K)  |  French (PDF 158K)
  Dutch (PDF 135K)
• Biofuels and Grain Prices: Impacts and Policy Responses
  May 7, 2008. Mark W. Rosegrant. Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
  (PDF 144K)
• Rising Food Prices: What Should Be Done?
  April 2008. Joachim von Braun. IFPRI Policy Brief.
  English: (PDF 381K)  |  German: (PDF 462K)
  Chinese: (PDF 289K)  |  French: (PDF 116K)
  Spanish: (PDF 133K)
• Poverty, Climate Change, Rising Food Prices, and the Small Farmers
  April 22, 2008. Joachim von Braun. Presentation at IFAD.
  (PDF 356K)
• Rising Prices and the Role of Commodity Exchanges
  April 17, 2008. Eleni Z. Gabre-Madhin, CEO, Ethiopia Commodity Exchange; IFPRI Senior Research Fellow. Press Statement.
  (PDF 52K)
• High and Rising Food Prices: Why Are They Rising, Who Is Affected, How Are They Affected and What Should Be Done?
  April 11, 2008. Joachim von Braun. Presentation at USAID conference.
  (PDF 96K)
• Supply and Demand of Agricultural Products and Inflation: How to Address the Acute and Long-Run Problem
  March 2008. Paper prepared for China Development Forum, Beijing, March 22-24, 2008.
• TV Interview: Joachim von Braun
  Azimuth Media/
  Oregon Public Broadcasting
  www.foreignexchange.tv
  March 21, 2008 (10 min)
  
  View Video on YouTube
• What Goes Down Must Come Up: Global Food Prices Reach New Heights
  March 2008. IFPRI Forum.
• Agriculture for Sustainable Economic Development: A Global R&D Initiative to Avoid a Deep and Complex Crisis
  February 28, 2008. Charles Valentine Riley Memorial Lecture, Capitol Hill Forum.
• Rising Food Prices: Implications and Consequences
  February 12, 2008. Panel Discussion. (Video available)
• The World Food Situation: New Driving Forces and Required Actions
  December 2007. Joachim von Braun. IFPRI Food Policy Report.
  English: (PDF 831K)  |  Spanish: (PDF 1.0M)  |  Chinese: (PDF 1.8M)
• Rising Food Prices Threaten World's Poor People
  December 7, 2007. Media Briefing.

See also, IFPRI work on bioenergy and globalization and markets.