From the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) press release: "Agricultural commodity prices should ease from their recent record peaks but over the next 10 years they are expected to average well above their mean levels of the past decade, according to the latest Agricultural Outlook from OECD and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)."
The FAO, in conjunction with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has issued The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2008-2017.
Additional information on the world food situation is available on the FAO site and on the OECD site.
Source: Goering, L. (29 May 2008). "UN: Food prices to stay high: Costs could add to world hunger, unrest, report says." Chicago Tribune.
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