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Between June 2010 and May 2011, international maize and wheat prices roughly doubled; food prices peaked in February 2011.
Torero (2016)
Torero, M. (2016). Alternative mechanisms to reduce food price volatility and price spikes: Policy responses at the global level. In M. Kalkuhl et al. (Eds.), Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy. Springer. https://opsaa.iica.int/en/resource-2747-alternative-mechanisms-to-reduce-food-price-volatility-and-price-spikes-policy-responses-at-the-global-level
395 days of excessive volatility were recorded for soft wheat between January 2007 and June 2011, compared with 207 days between December 2001 and December 2006.
Torero (2016)
Torero, M. (2016). Alternative mechanisms to reduce food price volatility and price spikes: Policy responses at the global level. In M. Kalkuhl et al. (Eds.), Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy. Springer. https://opsaa.iica.int/en/resource-2747-alternative-mechanisms-to-reduce-food-price-volatility-and-price-spikes-policy-responses-at-the-global-level
Up to 30% of the price increase in the first six months of 2008 can be explained by trade restrictions, according to IFPRI simulations with the MIRAGE model cited in the chapter.
Torero (2016)
Torero, M. (2016). Alternative mechanisms to reduce food price volatility and price spikes: Policy responses at the global level. In M. Kalkuhl et al. (Eds.), Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy. Springer. https://opsaa.iica.int/en/resource-2747-alternative-mechanisms-to-reduce-food-price-volatility-and-price-spikes-policy-responses-at-the-global-level
60 million tons, equivalent to 2.7% of global production, was the approximate difference between global grain stocks in 2007-2008 and those in 2004-2005.
Torero (2016)
Torero, M. (2016). Alternative mechanisms to reduce food price volatility and price spikes: Policy responses at the global level. In M. Kalkuhl et al. (Eds.), Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy. Springer. https://opsaa.iica.int/en/resource-2747-alternative-mechanisms-to-reduce-food-price-volatility-and-price-spikes-policy-responses-at-the-global-level
300,000 to 500,000 metric tons of basic grains are proposed as a humanitarian emergency reserve, about 5% of food aid flows of 6.7 million wheat-equivalent tons.
Torero (2016)
Torero, M. (2016). Alternative mechanisms to reduce food price volatility and price spikes: Policy responses at the global level. In M. Kalkuhl et al. (Eds.), Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy. Springer. https://opsaa.iica.int/en/resource-2747-alternative-mechanisms-to-reduce-food-price-volatility-and-price-spikes-policy-responses-at-the-global-level
600 million cases, 420,000 deaths in 2010 and 31 million DALYs resulted from 31 global food hazards causing 32 diseases.
WHO (2015)
WHO (World Health Organization, Suiza). 2015. WHO estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases: foodborne disease burden epidemiology reference group 2007-2015 (en línea).
600 million cases of foodborne illness occur annually worldwide, causing 400,000 deaths (WHO, 2015).
Alrededor de 600 millones de casos de enfermedades transmitidas por los alimentos se producen en el mundo cada año, con 400,000 fallecimientos por la misma causa. (OMS, 2015)
OMS. 2015. WHO estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases
10% of the world's population is affected by contaminated food (WHO, 2015).
Una persona de cada 10 se ve afectada por alimentos contaminados. (WHO, 2015)
WHO. 2015..WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases: Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group 2007–2015
One-third of the world's largest aquifers are being depleted (Richey et al., 2015).
Alrededor de un tercio de los acuíferos más grandes del mundo se están agotando. (Richey.et.al, 2015)
Richey.et.al, 2015. Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE
82% of the world's arable land depends on rainfall (Jara-Rojas et al., 2013).
Roberto Jara-Rojas, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta, Alejandra Engler, José Díaz (2013). An analysis of the joint adoption of water conservation and soil conservation in Central Chile. Land Use Policy. Volumen 32, 2013, páginas 292-301. ISSN 0264-8377.
Schultz, B., Thatte, C.D., Labhsetwar, V.K. (2005). Irrigation and drainage. Main contributors to global food production. Irrigation and Drainage volumen 54, páginas 263–278.
