McGill Conference on Global Food Security

The McGill Conference on Global Food Security will bring together leading international experts in agriculture, food and nutrition, policy and development to discuss a framework for long-term solutions to declining world food stocks and rising food prices.

Developing countries, as well as developed countries, in every corner of the globe are being affected by the current global food crisis. The world's poor are the hardest hit. Rapidly rising food prices in a very short time period have led to riots in several countries. The crisis is wiping out recent gains in poverty reduction in several regions. Over 800 million people go hungry in the developing world, and the crisis could force as many as 100 million people deeper into poverty. Sharply increasing fuel prices, low grain reserves, droughts, increasing demand for meat products in emerging nations, and use of food-producing lands for biofuel production are making it harder to predict an end to the crisis.