”When you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up,” US President George W Bush

”Export countries as diverse as Argentina, China, India, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Vietnam have placed additional taxes or restrictions on exports of grains, rice, oilseeds and other products. By reducing supplies available for world commerce, these actions only exacerbate the surge in global commodity prices,” Chief Economist at the Department of Agriculture, US, Joseph Glauber

”I think it is clear we can fix these problems. The solutions can be found. They are very difficult, some of them, in the short term, but they can be done,” Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, UN, John Holmes