The sudden increase in food prices in 2008 created global crisis causing political and economical imbalance and social disturbance in both poor and developed nations. The short term causes for the rise of food prices are untimely droughts in grain-producing nations, increase in oil prices which led to increase in costs of fertilizers, food transport, and industrial agriculture or modernized agriculture, increasing use of bio-fuels in several countries that is, diverting of farm lands to produce fuel, increase in demand for different diet products, decrease in world-food stock. The long term reasons for rise in food prices are fundamental changes in trade and agricultural production, risky marketing of goods, and climate change. Major rice exporters, such as China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and Egypt, have imposed strict export bans on rice in order to secure food remains for their internal populations. The emergency steps that should be taken to come out of this crisis is to improve productivity in the commercial food crop sector, in terms of production, processing and marketing or else people will suffer from lack of nutrition. Agricultural development should be given top most importance on the global agenda. Governments should allow farmers to access little more fertilizer, phytosanitary products, good roads, processing facilities, credit, advisory services, insurance and information on prices, cut police taxes on roads and the cost of diesel.
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