This new World Bank report says that volatility in food prices has been a key factor behind a rising tide of large scale farmland purchases in the developing world, which can pose social and environment risks, if not well managed.

This paper by Kaushik Basu, Chief Economic Adviser in the Ministry of Finance presents fundamentals of our foodgrain market and policy that leads to this situation and also suggests policies for rectifying this. Analyses some broad principles of economics that have been violated in the existing strategy and explains why we have not had adequate success in enriching farmers and protecting consumers.

The concept of Adaptive Social Protection (ASP) refers to a series of measures which aims to build resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable people to climate change by combining elements of social protection (SP), disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) in programmes and projects.

This report on the world hunger situation warns that many countries are going backwards on crucial hunger pledge, with more people under-nourished than a decade ago. In this scorecard China, ranked second out of the developing countries.

The 2010 World Disasters Report (WDR) focuses on urban risk in the context of a world which is urbanizing rapidly, where over half the world’s population now live in cities for the first time and more people than ever before live in slums.

This paper examines performance, challenges, and policies in food security in terms of availability, access, and absorption or nutrition.