Food Ethics Council

With countries across Asia stockpiling food staples and banning rice exports, increasing concern about the use of farmland for biofuel production, and drought and floods hitting farmers across the world, the summer edition of our magazine takes a hard look at the causes and consequences of rising food prices.

The magazine will provide a timely briefing on why commodity prices have risen and where these trends may take us, challenging the standard litany of explanations and forecasts.

Josette Sheeran, head of the World Food Programme, Joachim von Braun, Director General of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Chris Brown from Asda and Sarath Fernando of Sri Lanka’s Movement for Land and Agricultural Reform,  will explain what the rise in global commodity prices means for them.

Other confirmed contributors include: Peter Melchett, Policy Director of the Soil Association, who will explore whether the price bubble will burst; David Barling from City University’s Centre for Food Policy, who will give a cutting-edge analysis of price rises and food security; and Alexandra Strickner, Director of the Global Dialogue Project at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, who will examine what price rises mean for trade policy reform.

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