Food price volatility: Implications for ACP countries

On the 13^th of November 2011, CTA organised a Briefing on ‘Food price volatility: Implications for ACP countries’ in cooperation with International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the European Commission (DG DEVCO), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Concord, the ACP Secretariat and various media. 

This Briefing provided an overview of the main challenges, instruments and policies in tackling food price volatility and gave a summary of the key policy issues that were discussed at the G20 meeting and their implications for ACP countries. Case studies were used to demonstrate the effects of food price volatility and to identify the urgent and concrete policy actions needed to mitigate the negative effects of food price volatility.

On the Brussels briefings website (brusselsbriefings.net) you will find video and PowerPoint documentation of all the speeches given at the conference, as well as the programme of the event, photos, highlights, and the reader. The reader first describes the factors affecting trends volatility to then analyse the existing tools and policy options to reduce food price volatility.