The CGIAR is a strategic
alliance of members, partners and international agricultural
centers that mobilizes science to benefit the poor.
photo: IRRI
May 2008
Understanding and Containing Global Food Price Inflation
In recent months, dramatic increases in basic cereal prices have aroused intense concern about world agriculture and about the impact of food price inflation on poor consumers in developing countries.
No one understands better than farmers how the weather, especially when it takes a turn for the worse, can affect people and their land. That’s why farmers around the world have always talked and worried about the weather obsessively. But now, emerging weather patterns have a lot of other people worried, too. Read more..
Global Climate Change: Can Agriculture Cope?
