Ekonomik Sorunlar

FAO and Food Price Volatility
Mustapha SINACEUR
Sub-regional Office Coordinator for Central Asia,
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
The FAO World Food Day theme this year, “Food prices: from
crisis to stability” has been selected to focus on a trend which
has an impact on universal food security.
The world today faces continuing concerns about high food prices
and food security. The last year has been marked by a continuation
of the extreme swings in food prices seen since 2006. A few months
of calm came to an abrupt end last year when from July onwards
unfavourable weather hit crops in major producing countries. By the
end of the year grains prices soared to what they were at the peak of
the 2008 food crisis.
Those high prices in 2008 pushed an additional 80 million people into
hunger, increasing the number of hungry and malnourished to almost
one billion. That is around one seventh of the world’s population.
Volatility in food prices challenges the fundamental human right to
adequate food. High and volatile prices not only increase, but also
Uluslararası Ekonomik Sorunlar
Kasım 2011 • Yıl: 11 • Sayı: 43
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