Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on“Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options … classic food price dilemma: how to keep farm prices high enough to provide production intensification incentives for farmers … while at the same time keeping them low enough to ensure poor consumers’ access to food. The second major challenge has been …

For transition countries, the food industry sector is a key industry in terms of output andemployment shares. As a … scenarios of alternative development pathways of the food industry sector, takinginto account the impact of FDI in the European … food industry. The scenario analyses of thisstudy identify that with an enhanced attraction of FDI in the food processing …

will they originate and what about food security in the importing regions? How might market access conditions be re …-negotiated to make increased imports achievable? Other important issues discussed involved food safety, animal health and welfare …

) which procures and sells maize at administratively determined prices, and stores maize as a contingency against future … useful input into deliberations on the appropriate role for the NCPB in the future. It was not possible to use a fully …

The importance of food standards in global agricultural trade has increased strongly, but the effects are uncertain …. In this paper we critically review the arguments and empirical evidence on the link between increasing food standards …