Right to Food Issues Brief 1 Volatility, in terms of significant
and frequent changes in the direction and magnitude of food
prices, results in harmful effects [...] The sluggish supply
response in most developing countries to the apparently
favourable agricultural market situation of the past few years
[...] This article examines the driving forces behind farmers’
decisions to adopt improved pigeonpea and maize and estimates
the causal impact [...] How does international price volatility
affect domestic economies and food security? The State of Food
Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts
that the world food crisis of 2006-08 [...] The escalating rate
of competition over natural resources has reached important
levels. Data on leases and acquisitions of large tracts [...] A
large part of the urban population in Bangladesh, particularly
from the lower income groups, meets a substantial part of [...]
This sample spread sheet accompanies the simple price monitoring
tool to assess monthly