After a relatively short-lived decline during the Great Recession, international food prices have soared again and reached a record-high in recent months. This price surge, coupled with a dramatic spike in the price of oil, is causing great hardship for the world’s poor households.

Carnegie, the Center for Global Development, and Oxfam hosted a forum on the challenges facing the poorest countries with the end of global apparel quotas and potential U.S. policy responses.