News Headline
Higher Food Prices Can Help to End Hunger, Malnutrition and Food Waste
Source
Inter Press Service News Agency
Publication Date
2014-06-25
n this column, Andrew MacMillan, former director of the Field Operations Division of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and joint author with Ignacio Trueba of ‘How to End Hunger in Times of Crises’, counters conventional wisdom – which holds that low food prices are a “good thing” and can reduce hunger – with a call for higher food prices backed by targeted social protection programmes.