This year’s French-chaired G20 has food security as one of its key priorities. Agriculture ministers will be meeting for a summit in mid-June, and their sous-sherpas have been meeting in Paris this week to figure out an action plan to take to the summit.
The key input to that meeting was a joint paper on food price volatility produced by, essentially, all of the international organisations that matter on this issue: the IMF and World Bank; the three Rome-based UN food agencies, plus the UN High Level Food Task Force; the WTO and UNCTAD; and the OECD and International Food Policy Research Institute for good measure.
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