在法国总统萨科齐的领导下，G20已将减少食品价格波动列为今年头等大事，并在最近的巴黎G20农业部长会议上给出了解决方案。
Consumers are hurting worldwide, especially the poor, for whom food takes a major bite out of household budgets. Popular discontent over food prices has fueled political instability in some countries, most notably in Egypt and Tunisia.