Given the importance of the topic, not only to Mexico but at the global level, and the quality and experience of our speakers, I have no doubt that this session will be of great interest to all of us. After having shown a pronounced decline for several decades, international food prices started to increase at the beginning of this century, abruptly spiking in 2007–2008.
4  BIS Review 48/2003  to 82½ in 2000, the Rürup Commission assumes a further increase of roughly 3 years to 85½ by 2030. It is also assumed that the birth rate will stagnate at 1.4.