Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Overview -- Management Response -- Management Action Record -- Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness -- 1. Introduction -- The Global Food Crisis -- The International Response -- World Bank Group Response -- The Evaluation -- Organization of the Report -- 2. The Global Food Crisis Response Program: Design, Implementation, and Results to Date -- Objectives and Design of the GFRP -- The GFRP Lending Portfolio -- Evaluation Findings -- Coordination -- 3. Bank Group Support for Agriculture to Mitigate Food Crisis Impacts and Enhance Resilience -- Agricultural Crisis Response Policies by Governments -- Analytical Response to the Crisis by the World Bank Group -- Short-Term Response in Agriculture -- Medium and Longer-Term Response -- Lessons from the Bank Group's Agriculture Response -- 4. Bank Support to Social Safety Nets -- Social Safety Net Policy Responses to the Crisis by Governments -- Bank Policy Advice on Social Safety Nets in the Crisis -- Short-Term GFRP Response and Social Safety Net Activities -- Implementation of the GFRP Social Safety Net Activities -- Longer-Term Response -- Effectiveness and Sustainability of the Social Protection Portfolio -- Lessons from the Bank's Social Protection Response -- 5. Lessons and Recommendations -- General Lessons -- Additional Lessons -- Recommendations -- Appendixes -- A Differential Effects of the Crisis -- B Timeline of the World Bank Group Response and the Response of Other Donors -- C Analytical Framework and Selection Criteria for the Case Studies -- D The Global Food Crisis Response Lending Portfolio -- E Vulnerability Analysis -- F Review of the Agriculture Lending Portfolio -- G World Bank Group Agriculture Advisory Activities -- H Social Safety Net Portfolio Review.

I Summary Results of Country Case Studies -- Bibliography -- Boxes -- Figures -- Tables -- Back Cover.