Food Is Different (National Journal)
The National Journal quotes CGD senior fellow Kimberly Ann Elliott and non-resident fellow Peter Timmer on the global food crisis.
From the article:
"The proper balance between government and the private sector will be at the center of the emerging debate over agriculture. 'Some public intervention is needed,' said Kimberly Elliott, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development in Washington. 'The question is, what is the right intervention?'
...But skeptics contend that leaving the supply of food solely to the market's whims is a mistake. 'The mindless liberalization mentality at the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and among my fellow economists misses the fact that food is a biological necessity as well as a commodity,' said Peter Timmer, a visiting professor at Stanford University's Program on Food Security and the Environment."