Managing Food Price Volatility: Policy Options to Support Healthy Diets & Nutrition in the Context of Uncertainty

Price volatility is a particularly serious problem for poor households

Abstract

This policy brief identifies policy interventions that can anticipate and mitigate the negative dietary and nutritional outcomes of price volatility and market uncertainty. Policy interventions include short-term actions to protect the quality of consumers’ diets as well as long-term strategies that foster more stable and predictable food markets and prices.

This output is funded under the Department for International Developments Global Panel on Agriculture & Food Systems for Nutrition Programme

Citation

Global Panel (2016), Managing Food Price Volatility: Policy Options to Support Healthy Diets & Nutrition in the Context of Uncertainty, Policy Brief No. 4, London: Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition, 16pp

Managing Food Price Volatility: Policy Options to Support Healthy Diets & Nutrition in the Context of Uncertainty

Published 1 March 2016