THE GLOBAL FOOD CRISIS: RESOURCES FOR UNDERSTANDING

Following the June 12 GBD Colloquium on the Malthus Today (The Food Crisis), GBD has been made aware of a number of aids for understanding this challenge to the global community, including the global business community.  The ones we now have, including an MP3 recording of the June 12 colloquium, are listed below.  We shall add others as we go forward.

Resources

The Impacts of Food-to-Fuel Policies on Food Prices. This is the excellent PowerPoint presentation by Scott Faber of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which he presented at the GBD colloquium on June 12, 2008.  Click GMA PowerPoint.  

Malthus Today (The Food Crisis): Policies Affecting Supply and Demand for Food in the Global Economy.   This is an MP3 recording that lasts about 1 hr, 23 minutes. The speakers were: Terence Stewart of Stewart & Stewart and Silent-Tsunami.Org,  Ellen Levinson for the Alliance for Food Aid  Scott Faber of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, and Anne Steckel of the American Farm Bureau Federation.  Click Recording.

The Food Crisis: A Survey of Sources and Proposals for Preventing Global Catastrophe.  This PDF document is a useful pamphlet prepared by Terence Stewart and the law firm of Stewart and Stewart in conjunction with the June 12 GBD colloquium, Malthus Today.  Click Survey.

Tackling the challenge of rising food prices, Directions for EU action. This is a communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, and the European Economic and Social Committee, dated May 5, 2008. Click EU action.

Additional Materials will be added soon. Thank you for visiting.

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