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Bringing Together Urban Systems and Food Systems Theory and Research is Overdue

Urban dwellers’ food and nutritional wellbeing are both dependent on infrastructure and can be indicative of wider wellbeing in urban...

Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration: Concepts and Assumptions

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This working paper is the product of the Living Off-Grid Food and Infrastructure Collaboration. It is designed to bring together our...

Challenging the Normalisation of Hunger in Highly Unequal Societies

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This paper starts from an empirical observation that levels of hunger or food insecurity in middle-income and high-income countries are often higher than might be expected, and in some cases are rising rather than falling in recent years. We document levels and trends in selected food security indicators for three case study countries: Brazil, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.