The food price crisis and urban food (in)security
The food price crisis and urban food (in)security
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DOI：
10.1177/0956247810380375
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Garrett, James L.
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作者：
Cohen, Marc J.;Garrett, James L.
2007 年和 2008 年上半年，国家和国际政策对食品价格快速上涨的反应几乎没有解决对低收入城市居民的严重影响。这些讲话、宣言、计划和承诺适当指出了贫困城市居民对粮食价格上涨的脆弱性，因为他们主要依靠市场购买粮食（比农村居民更严重），而粮食购买占他们支出的大部分。然而，大多数政策规定都侧重于解决农村粮食生产的制约因素。本文讨论了为什么政策制定者应该更加关注城市居民，并描述了食品价格上涨对城市居民产生影响的多种途径。它还强调了这些影响在这场危机中如何发挥作用的证据，并讨论了如何调整和改进当前的政策应对措施，以在短期和长期内更好地保护城市贫民。
Both national and international policy responses to the rapid food price increases in 2007 and the first half of 2008 did little to address the very serious impacts on low-income urban dwellers. The speeches, declarations, plans and pledges duly noted the vulnerability of poor urban dwellers to food price rises, as they rely primarily on market purchases for their food (much more so than rural dwellers) and food purchases account for the bulk of their expenditure. Yet most policy prescriptions focused on addressing constraints to rural-based food production. This paper discusses why policy makers should pay greater attention to urban dwellers and describes the multiple pathways through which food price increases have impacts on urban people. It also highlights the evidence on how these impacts have played out during this crisis and discusses how current policy responses could be adjusted and improved to better protect the urban poor in the short and longer term.