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December 7 - Global food prices

Article: Signs Of The Last Times|


 
Soaring global food prices are a wake-up call to action to avoid a new food crisis that would pitch millions more of the world's poor into hunger, U.S. researchers said Thursday. 
 
Warning that prices were edging toward crisis levels seen in 2007-2008, the International Food Policy Research Institute urged policymakers to learn lessons from that crisis to prevent another one.
 
"Another food crisis can be prevented but urgent actions are needed," Shenggen Fan, IFPRI director general, told reporters at a briefing on a new study of the last food crisis.
 
Data shows the 2007-2008 food crisis emerged in a perfect storm of factors, according to the "Reflections on the Global Food Crisis" report released by the Washington-based institute. The combination included increased energy costs, as oil prices skyrocketed to a record $147 a barrel in July 2008, and growing demand for biofuels that diverted food crops like corn (maize) into energy production. A weaker dollar and trade shocks related to export restrictions, panic purchases, and unfavorable weather also contributed to the crisis, the researchers said.
 
Derek Headey, IFPRI research fellow and report co-author, said that many of the factors that caused the 2008 crisis also caused the 1974 commodity crisis "and some of these factors are again playing out in 2010."

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