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Rapid price increases in early 2008 led to riots in over 30 countries that sparked international calls for action and repositioned as global priorities the need to combat hunger and reinvigorate local agriculture. Action Against Hunger’s in-depth study, "Feeding Hunger & Insecurity," reminds us the crisis is far from over: global food prices may be falling, but local prices continue to increase or remain at inflated levels in most vulnerable countries, putting millions of people at risk. And while global rates of acute malnutrition remain largely unchanged, the “Global Food Crisis” has consistently forced families to adopt damaging coping strategies to maintain staple food consumption—with long-term implications for poverty, vulnerability, and malnutrition. Urgent funding is needed to translate global policy into effective, targeted responses addressing the needs of those most affected and most vulnerable.