… Arguably, if we are to understand the challenge of current food policy, the frame of reference
needs to go even further back than a mere 10,000 years. Human physiology – how bodies …

… The early drafts of Food Policy Analysis (henceforth FPA) were stimulated by the attention to
high food prices following the world food crisis in 1973–74 and the fears of a repeat in 1979–…

… how food policy instruments can be deployed to try to preempt or relieve food insecurity, …
causes of, and appropriate policy measures to address persistent food insecurity, differ in some …

… of this paper is to study the magnitude and various causes of the global food crisis. Further,
the paper aims to suggest policy measures towards the solution of global food crisis problem. …

… policy analysts, economists, and others with expertise in food policy to enhance the understanding
of the food crisis… compares with past food crises, show how national policies link to the …

… The food crisis of 2008 propelled the issue of food security from the margins to the center of
… food production and distribution systems. From 2006 through 2008, skyrocketing food prices …

… Preventing food crises rather than trying … food crises in 1972/73 and in 2007/08, especially
lessons from how the world rice market functioned, point the way toward improved food policy …

… reports reflected in multilateral policy responses to the recent food crisis? This article seeks
… comparing their findings with four multilateral food crisis policy statements. In many ways, the …

… from the enabling conjunctural policies of the corporate food regime. Rising costs, related
to peak oil and fuel crop substitutes, combine with monopoly pricing by agribusiness to inflate …

… The rest of this chapter introduces how these food crisis tendencies … ‘management of
crisis’ of the agri-industrial system. … health and food quality assurance policies. This time-honoured …