The problem is that the new rhetoric of self-sufficiency coincides with a growing distrust of markets and trade.

By Andrew Martin (The New York Times)
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2008
Prices for farm crops should gradually come down, but they will remain substantially higher than average over the next decade, according to a report by the United Nations and the OECD

By Peter Mandelson (International Herald Tribune)
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2008
In the global age, food security can only make sense at a global level.

By James Kanter and Stephen Castle (International Herald Tribune)
MONDAY, MAY 19, 2008
The rise in prices added a new element to the long-running debate over EU farm subsidies, with some governments seeing a new reason to cut payouts and defenders countering that the system is needed more than ever before.