- Whatever happened to the food crisis?
- Press communique on the high-level working dinner co-hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on the World Food Crisis
- At UN summit, Ban urges ‘bold and urgent’ steps to tackle global food crisis
- UN press statement: a unified United Nations response to the global food price challenge
- US$200 million from IFAD to help poor farmers boost food production in face of food crisis
- UN chief urges global leadership to combat food crisis
- Task Force on global food crisis to move at ‘full speed’ – Ban Ki-moon
- Global food crisis could have been avoided – UN development experts
- UN Secretary-General warns of global food availability crisis
- Addressing the global food crisis: Key trade, investment and commodity policies in ensuring sustainable food security and alleviating poverty
- Rising food prices (IFPRI knowledgebase)
- Responding to the Global Food Crisis: Three Perspectives (IFPRI 2007-2008 Annual Report essays)
- High-level task force on the Global Food Crisis
- Food prices: Smallholders can be part of the solution (factsheet)
- Soaring food prices and the rural poor: feedback from the field
- IFAD’s response to rising food and energy prices
- ECOSOC food crisis issues note, May 2008
- High food prices: Impact and recommendations - Paper prepared by FAO, IFAD and WFP for the meeting of the Chief Executives Board for Coordination on 28-29 April 2008, Berne, Switzerland
- Growing demand on agriculture and rising prices of commodities
- Poverty, climate change, rising food prices, and the small farmers
- High Food Prices: The What, Who, and How of Proposed Policy Actions
- Crop prospects and food situation
- Only a few green shoots, Economist, 7-13 June. 2008
- It’s the stupid politics: The world's poor are paying the price for years of bad government policy in agriculture, Newsweek, 19 May 2008
- The rising cost of food: US warns on moves to shun food trade, Financial Times, 14 May 2008
- UN taskforce set for action on food crisis
- Signs of an end to soaring food prices
- The rising cost of food
- Concrete measures are needed to strengthen peasant and farmer-based food production: Open letter to Mr Jacques Diouf Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Mr. Yasuo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan, President of the G8, Mr. John W. Ashe, Permanent UN representative, Antigua and Barbuda's Permanent and Chairman of the Group of 77, from: Henry Saragih, International Coordinator for La Via Campesina
- The new face of hunger
- The silent tsunami
Hot links
- Food crisis among top priorities for 17th CSD session
- Live interview with Lennart Båge by BBC World News on soaring food prices on the occasion of G8 summit
Quicktime | RealPlayer | Windows Mediaplayer - Helping women respond to the global food price crisis - International Food Policy Research Institute, October 2008
- Supporting smallholders is crucial to food security, Financial Times, 7 July 2008
- Developing countries make use of $US200 million initiative to increase food production quickly
- Statement of Lennart Båge to FAO High-level conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bio-energy
- Address by Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations to the High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
- Live interview with Lennart Båge by BBC World News on soaring food prices on the occasion of High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
- Only a few green shoots, Economist, 7-13 June, 2008
- "Food crisis: danger and opportunity", UN Radio, 18 June, 2008
- U.N. Food Meeting Ends With a Call for ‘Urgent’ Action, New York Times, 6 June 2008
- Unleash the potential of the world's poor farmers, Globe and Mail, 6 June 2008
- Live interview with Matthew Wyatt, Assistant President External Affairs Department by Al Jazeera on soaring food prices on the occasion of High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy
- Interview with Lennart Bage by Reuters: Food crisis has changed game on beating poverty: U.N.
- Secretary-General's high-level task force on the global food crisis
- High-Level Conference on World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy (FAO)
- Food Price Crisis (World Bank)
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