A High Price to Pay
The impact of rising and volatile food prices on children’s nutrition and food security
OCTOBER 2012 - We’re approaching a new norm of high and volatile global food prices. It’s pushing nutritious foods out of the reach of poor families.
A High a Price to Pay puts forward a series of recommendations to address the impact of high and volatile food prices on poor families:
- countries with high malnutrition should invest in social protection and build up food stocks
- the EU should drop its biofuel mandate – a key factor pushing up food prices
- food-exporting countries must coordinate to prevent food-price volatility.