It has now been about two years since the first international food price shocks erupted in 2008.

FORBES: Inclusive Crises and Exclusive Recoveries?

In 2010, the G-20 countries requested a consensus report from the various international agencies on how to better manage the risks of food price volatility after bread riots in two dozen countries from Brazil to Pakistan.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Ethanol vs. the World

Derek Headey of the International Food Policy Research Institute has shown that despite the world food-price spike, people's assessment of their own food situation in most poor and middle-income countries was better in 2008 than it had been in 2006.

ECONOMIST: Global poverty