date:Jul 07, 2012
been instrumental in getting the United Nations to increase the attention on excessive food price volatility. Since 2007, there has been a reversal of a four-decade-long downward tendency in prices of agricultural commodities. Between 2008 and 2011 has been characterized by a series of extreme peaks and valleys in food pricing, which made it particularly difficult for economically vulnerable consumers and agricultural producers to cope.
Food price inflation has already been higher than overall