Mustafa Qadri

I read this after another casual stroll to the supermarket stocking up on goods I rarely think twice about…

Background to the food crisis: origins, impact, and responses

During 2007 and 2008, prices for staple foods such as rice, maize, and wheat increased greatly and at a rapid pace. For some crops, prices doubled in the space of a year or two. This impacted most heavily upon poor people in developing countries, where millions of people moved into a situation of food insecurity; that is, hunger.