FAO's Inititative on Soaring Food Prices:  Guide for Policy and Programmatic Actions at Country Level to Address High Food Prices, FAO 2011

Designed for "those involved in developing action plans to address the current issue of high food prices," this FAO guide considers interventions that can be applied in scenarios of rising food prices.  These interventions are considered along four types of action: macroeconomic policies, trade-related measures, measures in favor of consumers, and measures in favor of producers. 

Gender Dimensions of Agricultural and Rural Employment: Differentiated Pathways out of Poverty, FAO, IFAD, ILO 2010

FAO, IFAD, and the ILO team up to investigate the gender dimensions of rural employment for the purpose of poverty reduction.  They emphasize that any policy action to enable pathways out of rural poverty should be informed by a contextual understanding of gender constraints as well as gendered rural livelihoods.

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OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2010-2019, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, June 2010

Food Outlook: Global Market Analysis, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, June 2010

• African Food Production on the Rise, FAO, Oct. 13
• Drip Irrigation Boosts Food Production in West Africa, ICRISAT
• Food Security at 20 Year Low in Kenya, allAfrica.com, Oct. 14

The FAO report, “The State of Agricultural Commodity Markets: High Food Prices and the Food Crisis – Experiences and Lessons Learned” examines the root causes of the recent food crisis and its impact on poverty reduction and food security.

The FAO will hold the World Summit on Food Security in Rome from November 16-18, 2009. The summit is being convened by FAO Director-General Jacque Diouf to negotiate a declaration for adoption by the World Summit of Heads of State and Government on Food Security.