Responding to the global food price crisis

CHF believes responses to the crisis must numerous and complex, and point to longer- specifically target the rural poor through standing and deeper problems of poverty and interventions that both sustainably increase food insecurity in the countries surveyed. [...] Poor rural people are experiencing the crisis been hit hardest by the rise in food prices, in a number of ways: most have seen their but with the right support can be a major purchasing power eroded and their household part of the solution; the right support expenditures squeezed by rising food prices; begins with a renewed commitment on the many have been pushed to consume less and part of the do [...] The price of rice has risen by 58 per cent in Bangladesh and 57 per cent in Sri Lanka from June 2007, but doubled in Vietnam and Guyana, and nearly tripled in Ethiopia; the price of wheat has risen by 51 per cent in Bangladesh and 56 per cent in Guyana1, but in the same period jumped by 87.5 per cent in Sri Lanka and 229 per cent in Ethiopia; the price of maize has increased by 100 per cent in Ken [...] Mismanagement and poor policy choices related to agriculture by successive governments, along with high rates of poverty are the main reasons for the crisis.” Response from the Sewa Lanka Foundation, CHF’s partner in Sri Lanka 3. Impact CHF works with the rural poor, and the responses received suggest that the impact of high and rising food prices has been felt most acutely by these people. [...] The impact of the food price crisis in Canada In sharp contrast to the countries surveyed by CHF, Canada has largely been shielded from the adverse effects of the food price crisis.