Dr. Evan Fraser at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

On October 27th, 2011. See this statement in context.

October 27th, 2011 / 3:40 p.m.

Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair, Department of Geography, University of Guelph, As an Individual

I'll direct your attention to some of those illustrations as I work along.

I have to begin with a caveat. I haven't lived in Canada for much of the last 10 years, and I'm not an expert on agricultural policy. My training is on global food security. So my hope is to give you some broad contextual issues and maybe a way of thinking about agricultural policy from a very broad and global perspective.

The second illustration I sent includes some data from the United Nations food price index. It shows why I'm concerned about global food security in the 21st century. You can see two extraordinary price spikes in 2008 and again last year .

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