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The 2008 World Food Crisis
Jomo Kwame Sundaram

The causes of the current food crisis have their roots in both long term and short term developments. While the flagging efforts to boost food output and the neglect of agriculture since the eighties have proved to be risky, the newer factors of unilateral trade liberalisation and recent threat to food cultivation from bio-fuels have only compounded this problem. In any case, at an international level, an institutional policy prescription for adequately addressing this issue does not seem to be in view.
 

August 25, 2008.

 
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