What will higher global food prices mean for poor consumers and small farmers in Southern Africa?

Rising food prices present a very real threat to ongoing efforts to combat poverty and hunger in southern Africa. However, this brief produced by the Regional Hunger & Vulnerability Programme (RHVP), argues that this is not necessarily the full picture. If the immediate threat of escalating prices can be effectively addressed, the authors assert, the higher prices themselves could promise longer term benefits to small farmers as well as poor consumers.

 RHVP - April 2008