This paper examines some of the links through which urbanization is considered to be contributing to higher food prices and concludes that in most cases urbanization is being conflated with other long-term processes.

The concept of local food is appealing to many consumers. This report advances the discussion about defining the local by examining the geographical location of GHG emissions along the supply chains upstream of two case study farms.

Rapid increases in food prices in 2007 and 2008 attracted high-level policy attention. This paper argues that the disproportionate attention that policy solutions to the food price crisis give to rural dwellers is likely misplaced.