Our report, Fighting food shortages, shows how the policies of western governments are a prime underlying cause of the food crisis that threatens hunger for millions of people.
Read the report (527kb pdf)
Fighting food shortages: hungry for change looks at how trade liberalisation has had a ruinous effect on agriculture around the world.
It says a situation already dire has then been made worse by other factors such as biofuel production, climate change, speculation in food commodities and higher oil prices.
The UK government is urged to declare how it intends to tackle the current food crisis and to present long-term solutions to prevent it happening again.