Developing countries should be allowed to employ trade measures to ensure food security, declared Olivier de Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

Recent financial and food price crises have forced policy-makers to question conventional thinking on how agricultural markets work, why they sometimes fail, and what role governments should play when they do. To answer some of those questions, the Carnegie Endowment and the Heinrich Boll Foundation co-hosted a panel of experts to discuss sustainable agriculture policies.