Back to food prices

by | Oct 1, 2008


I’m speaking tonight at a Global Development Forum event on food prices; Peter Melchett from the Soil Association, Steve Wiggins from ODI and Andrew Coker from Syngenta are also on the panel.  My short intro talk is here.

Meanwhile, joy of joys, I have also just finished the pamphlet that’ll be the main output of my Chatham House project on food prices.  It’s likely to launch in early November – I’ll post a few of the key findings here next week.

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  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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