Documents
Food Price Volatility and Food Security
Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 11 October 2011
Symposium Documents
Price volatility from a global perspective (
1444 kb)
David Hallam, Director, Trade and Markets Division, FAO
Price volatility from a national and agricultural policy perspective ( 196 kb)
Vinzenz Jung, Deputy Head of Economics and Social Affairs Unit, Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture
Smart Policies to Feed Vulnerable African Communities ( 2883 kb)
Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, CEO of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
Price Volatility: The View from Asia ( 706 kb)
Rupa Mukerji, Co-head for Advisory Services, Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation
Mitigation of and adaptation to price volatility: How can agriculture contribute to more stability? How can individual producers protect themselves? ( 351 kb)
Robert Finger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Possible responses from the financial sector ( 506 kb)
Alain Butler, Senior Advisor on Soft Commodities, BNP Paribas
Background reading
Price volatility and food security ( 1469 kb)
High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE), July 2011
Price Volatility in Food and Agricultural Markets: Policy Responses ( 556 kb)
Policy report with contributions by FAO, IFAD, IMF, OECD, UNCTAD, WFP, the World Bank, the WTO, IFPRI and the UN HLTF, June 2011
Price Formation in Financialized Commodity Markets: The Role of Information
( 2301 kb)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), June 2011
Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture ( 198 kb)
Ministerial Declaration, Meeting of G20 Agriculture Ministers, Paris, 22 and 23 June 2011
Committee on World Food Security (CFS): Food Price Volatility Portal
Documents of past events
Promoting Innovation: How can Switzerland strengthen its contribution to rural development in the international context?
Bern, Switzerland, 17 November 2010
The Challenge of Climate change for Agriculture and Food Security
Bern, Switzerland, 16 April 2010
Large-scale Investment in Agriculture and Land – Opportunity and Risk for Food Security
Bern, Switzerland, 15 October 2009
