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High food prices have brought into sharp focus an existing global food crisis that affects almost one billion people. Lasting solutions to the problem include adequate investment in agriculture, fairer trade, the redistribution of resources, and action on climate change. But hungry people cannot be fed on the hope of long-term solutions. Governments, supported by aid agencies and donors, must act now to provide systematic emergency assistance and longer-term support to those in need, and to better protect people in chronic poverty against shocks such as drought, floods, and market volatility.
- Authors
- Mousseau, Frederic
- Bailey, Michael
- Publication date
- 26 Jan 2009
- ISBN
- 9781848141698
- Publisher
- Oxfam International
- Series
- Oxfam Briefing Papers
- Type
- Policy paper
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