date:Jul 09, 2012
mic, Graziano da Silva said.
In recent years, especially since 2007, the world has seen the reversal of a four-decade-long downward tendency in prices of agricultural commodities. The period between 2008 and 2011 was characterised by a series of extreme peaks and valleys in food pricing which made it especially difficult for economically vulnerable consumers and agricultural producers to cope.
Food price inflation has already been higher than overall inflation in almost every country. This has