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Rising Food Prices: Policy Options and World Bank Response

Publisher: World Bank

Publication Date: April 11, 2007

Copyright: 2008

Publisher Website: http://www.worldbank.org

Language: en

Category: Sustainable Development, Food, Agriculture and Rural Issues, Economy, Business and Finance, Africa, International Organizations and Africa


According to Rising Food Prices: Policy Options and World Bank Response, increases in global wheat prices reached 181 percent over the 36 months leading up to February 2008, and overall global food prices increased by 83 percent. Food crop prices are expected to remain high in 2008 and 2009 and then begin to decline, but they are likely to remain well above the 2004 levels through 2015 for most food crops.


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