Food Price Surges: Possible Causes, Past Experience, and Longer Term Relevance

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Urbanisation and Food Insecurity Risks: Assessing the Role of Human Development (2016, background): “Developing countries are also severely affected by the volatility in global food prices (Alexandratos, 2008; Food and Agricultural Organization [FAO], 2011).”
Creating culturally sustainable agri-environmental schemes (2011, background): “In 2007e2008 a commodity price bubble emerged, driven by increased consumer demand, high energy prices, speculative trading, and problems with the supply/demand system (Alexandratos, 2008; Piesse and Thirtle, 2009).”
Global water crisis and future food security in an era of climate change (2010, background): “Food demand management measures are unlikely to be a major pathway, as human diets and food traditions might be extremely difficult to influence (Alexandratos, 2008; Stokstad, 2010), especially as income grows (Mancino et al.”