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Over the last five years, global food prices have risen dramatically, and become much more volatile. After decades of low prices, disruptions in global agriculture markets are having serious effects on food security, farmers and the environment. Last year, the UN Committee on Food Security, the foremost intergovernmental platform addressing global food security and nutrition, created a High-level Panel of Experts to analyze what is causing higher food prices and increased volatility – and to issue recommendations. The report, published last month, considers the role of excessive (...)

Rising food prices, increasing climate instability and food riots have sparked profound political changes around the world and put agriculture high on the international agenda. What kind of agriculture is best suited to respond to those challenges, however, is the subject of profound disagreement. Too much of the current policy debate on food security, climate change and agriculture assumes that industrial agriculture and related biotechnology are the only options for feeding a growing global population. Agribusiness and agrochemical companies have created and supported this image through (...)