Last updated on October 28, 2012
I was in Montreal two weeks ago to take part in the 2012 McGill Global Food Security Conference, presenting in a session titled “Can High Food Prices and Volatility Be Managed?” Here are my slides (document opens a .pdf file).
My answer to the question posed by the session’s theme was: “Yes, but high food prices and food price volatility are different problems requiring different policy instruments,” and most of my presentation was dedicated to explaining (and then showing empirical examples of) how “food price volatility” is not the same thing as “high food prices.”