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Food prices update August 2013

Publication - Research reports and studies - 5 September 2013

ODI’s food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. They also follow international food and commodity price indices.

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The end of cheap rice: a cause for celebration?

Publication - Briefing papers - 14 August 2013

ODI Briefings 82

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

Cheap rice may well be a thing of the past according to this new ODI Briefing which says that growing pressure on land and water resources, coupled with population growth, may be pushing the world towards an era of higher prices.

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Food Prices June 2013 update

Publication - Research reports and studies - 5 July 2013

Food price updates

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

ODI’s food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. They also follow international food and commodity price indices.

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Looking back, peering forward: what has been learned from the food-price spike of 2007–2008?

Publication - Briefing papers - 3 July 2013

ODI Briefings 81

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

This ODI Briefing and research report summarise current understanding of the food-price spike of 2007-2008, and explores lessons learned to reduce future uncertainty and shocks to protect the poor and vulnerable.

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Diverting grain from animal feed and biofuels: can it protect the poor from high food prices?

Publication - Research reports and studies,Briefing papers - 3 July 2013

ODI Briefings 80

Anna Locke, Giles Henley, Sharada Keats and Steve Wiggins

This ODI Briefing and research report explore the potential of temporarily diverting grain from animal feed to human consumption as a way to dampen the impact of volatile cereal prices on the poor.

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Food prices

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As the world adjusts to higher food prices ODI studies: changes in international cereal markets; the causes and impacts of higher food prices; potential policies to mitigate harm as well as exploring the links from agriculture to poverty, hunger and malnutrition.

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Food Price Update October 2012

Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 October 2012

Food price updates 15

Sharada Keats and Steve Wiggins

ODI’s food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. They also follow international food and commodity price indices. This edition focuses on food prices during October 2012.

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Food Price Update March 2012 Annual Review

Publication - Research reports and studies - 25 April 2012

Food price updates 10

Sharada Keats and Steve Wiggins

March 2012 - Annual Update: ODI’s Food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. They also follow international food and commodity price indices. The Annual update includes a look at how cereals markets have evolved since the 2007/08 price spike.

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Development Policy Review

Publication - Journal articles or issues - 1 November 2011

Development Policy Review vol. 29, iss. 6

various authors

Articles in the latest issue explore food security, the turnaround in opinion about high and low food prices, and the need for new indices to reflect different consumer groups.

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