Food Ethics Council

As the UK and other governments meet in Rome for crisis talks on food prices, the latest edition of Food Ethics magazine  urges governments to tackle the injustice at the heart of the crisis and not to use food concerns as a vehicle to push through other ambitions.

The collection has contributions from global figures including Jacques Diouf (Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation), Josette Sheeran (Chief Executive of the World Food Programme)  and Lester K Brown (President of the Earth Policy Institute).
 
“The crisis is an opportunity to advance all sorts of vested interests, but we mustn’t mistake opportunities for solutions,” says FEC Executive Director Dr Tom MacMillan.

“Solving this crisis is fundamentally about fair shares, not simply about producing more food, cutting costs or freeing up global trade. Even when food prices were lower, and supply and demand seemed in balance, 860 million people went hungry and almost 3 billion malnourished. The Rome talks mustn’t get side-tracked from that fact.”
 

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Contents and editorial

Rising food prices: drivers and implications for development - Alex Evans (referenced version)

Food prices: what are they? - Christopher Ritson

Will free trade solve the food crisis? - Sophia Murphy

Are there any scouts out there? - Daryll E Ray and Harwood Schaffer

Subscribe to read the whole magazine. The contributors in full: Alex Evans (New York University); Steve Wiggins (ODI); Jim Sumberg (New Economics Foundation); Jacques Diouf (Food and Agriculture Organisation); Lester R Brown (Earth Policy Institute); Josette Sheeran (World Food Programme); James Walton (IGD); Carl Atkin (Bidwells Agribusiness); Joachim von Braun (IFPRI); Patrick Krause (Scottish Crofting Foundation); Sarath Fernando (MONLAR); Adam Drewnowski (University of Washington); Chris Brown (ASDA); Lisa Wilson (ILC-UK); Richard Longthorp (BPEX); Christopher Ritson (University of Newcastle); Peter Melchett (Soil Association); David Barling (City University); Michiel Korthals (Wageningen University); Bill Vorley (IIED); Sophia Murphy (IATP); Daryll E Ray and Harwood Schaffer (University of Tennessee); Edward Clay (ODI); Patrick Mulvany (Practical Action); Tido von Schoen-Angerer (Medecins Sans Frontieres); Nick Snelgar (Future Farms); Hattie Ellis (author of 'Planet chicken').