The 2007-08 food price crisis provoked renewed policy debate on a wide range of important matters long sidelined from mainstream consideration—the role and value of smallholder agriculture, the need for public investment in the sector, the importance of public agricultural research, the value for developing countries of growing more of their own food, the dangers posed by climate change in an era of thin global commodity markets, and the potential value of food reserves for both food security and price stability.

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• Wise, T. A., (2025), "SWFS - Two roads diverged in the food crisis: Global policy takes the one more travelled", HSSCommons: (DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.98)

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Original publication: Wise, Timothy A. "SWFS - Two roads diverged in the food crisis: Global policy takes the one more travelled." Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation, vol. 2, no. 2, 2015, pp. 9-16. DOI: 10.15353/cfs-rcea.v2i2.98. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation. Copyright © the author(s). Work published in CFS/RCÉA prior to and including Vol. 8, No. 3 (2021) is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY license. Work published in Vol. 8, No. 4 (2021) and after is licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license. For details, see creativecommons.org/licenses/.