“The real challenge is to define new rules for those markets that cannot be governed by the approaches and instruments borrowed directly from the world of finance and capital.” International Monetary Fund.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the recent volatility of the agrifood markets had caused an increase in the prices of primary necessities that has created 100 million new poor. The increase in the world population, the recent access to consumer markets of parts of populations that had been excluded until now, the persistence of structural contrasts in worldwide income distribution, all point to the need to find concrete ways to guarantee food for everyone.
But alongside these medium/long-term trends that reflect current social and environmental changes, access to food is also regulated by the decrease on the markets of the prices of raw materials, that has called attention to the existence of serious problems within the operation of the mechanisms of access to natural resources, energy and food. From July 2005 to July 2008 the Commodity Food Price Index increased by 75%, then decreased by 33% in the five succeeding months, while the quotations of the price of grains increased by 128% from July 2005 to August 2008, followed by a decrease of 33% over the four succeeding months.
The goal is to regulate and guarantee access to the necessary, however scarce, resources, for a population that is gradually converging on new and higher levels of income, needs and demand.