Bioenergy and Food Security

This paper analyzes the household level impact of an increase in price of major tradable staple foods in a cross section of developing countries, using nationally representative household surveys. It finds that, in the short...

The report is published annually, as part of a continuing effort to promote informed discussion of emerging market and policy issues. This edition of the Agricultural Outlook offers an assessment of agricultural markets covering...

This paper considers that the rapid rise in food prices between 2002 and 2008 was a burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend roughly half of their household incomes on food. It examines the factors behind the rapid...

A number of coincidental global driving forces are converging to bring issues of climate change, long-run environmental sustainability of economic growth, and global food security and wellbeing to the forefront of policy thought...

On 29 April 2008, the Chief Executives Board (CEB) of the United Nations decided to establish a High-Level Task Force (HLTF) on the Global Food Crisis, under the leadership of the Secretary-General which brought together the...

The global food and agribusiness industry is set to undergo significant changes in the coming years. Increased demand for food and animal feed, as well as the growing use of crops of biofuels require greater deployment of scarce...

The use of biobased raw materials for energy and material has been brought into discredit in the past years. The use of bioenergy is repeatedly held responsible for the recent food crisis and for the deforestation of rainforest,...

UK support for biofuels is based on the premise that biofuels deliver considerable net reductions in GHG emissions compared to fossil fuels. As a secondary benefit, it was hoped a growing biofuels market would create economic...

Written by Purdue University economists Wallace Tyner, Christopher Hurt and Philip Abbott, the study, What’s Driving Food Prices?, identifies three broad sets of forces driving food price increases.The first major section is an...

Prepared by the Fiscal Affairs, Policy Development and Review, and Research Departments, International Monetary Fund (IMF), this report provides a first broad assessment of the impact of the surge in food and fuel prices on the...