Table of Contents

Soaring food prices: a global concern
Sudan’s 2008 price hikes
Post-2008 surges
Prices of other agricultural commodities hiked
Determinants of price surges
Impacts of price hikes
Responses to price hikes and volatility
Remedial policy or programmatic choices
Selected references

From the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Executive Summary

2011 was a transformative year for North Africa, upending many assumptions about the region’s political stability. Regimes that had been ruled by authoritarian governments for decades suddenly erupted in mass protest, leading to the departure of two aging dictators—in Tunisia and Egypt – and on-going civil war in another—Libya. Sudan, for its part, was poised to break apart after the south voted to secede.

From the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law

Executive Summary

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, climate change will disproportionately affect the most vulnerable populations in the developing world. Rising temperatures, increasingly severe floods and droughts, and sea-level rise threaten economies that are reliant on agriculture, in countries whose governments lack adaptive capacity, and in areas where populations have little access to healthcare and education.

Acta de Compromiso para la implementación de normas mínimas de asistencia humanitaria en Ecuador, SNGR