Food price volatility and hunger alleviation - can Cannes work?

Agriculture and Food Security

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Hajkowicz, Stefan ^a   Negra, Christine ^b   Barnett, Paul ^a   Clark, Megan ^a   Harch, Bronwyn ^a   Keating, Brian ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Secretariat   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cannes summit; Food price volatility; Food security; G20 action plan; Hunger alleviation; Policy responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006004215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2048-7010-1-8     Document Type: Article

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