date:Sep 17, 2012
its food basket means finding an additional $200 million a year to buy the same amount of food. In the longer term, it is important to strengthen programmes that enable poor families to buy or produce their own food to reduce their dependency on direct assistance.
But they also noted that the recovery of food prices could play a positive role in stimulating agricultural investment and production in developing countries. However, that would only happen if farmers received appropriate support and