Global Food Price Crisis of 2008-2012Implications of Transboundary Risks on Food Supply

Food price volatility is an important impact of transboundary climate risks. However, food prices tend to mix with many other events extraneous to agriculture making their prediction a difficult task. This presentation presents a case study of 2008 and 2012 global food price crisis and provides insights in terms of their transboundary nature, the impacts of the event, and some off-the-shelf adaptation initiatives that can help address such future crisis.