The rural poor and local economies of the developing world have had profound and devastating impact due to food import surges. This paper shows different issues such as in chapter 1 outline the extend of import surges, chapter 2 provides a brief synopsis of import surge cases studied both by the ActionAid and FAO, domestic as well as external causes are outline in chapter 3,chapter 4 provides the details of several cases chapter 6 conclude the report with recommendations.