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8 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Events since 2008 have crystallised a view that global economic shocks are more likely, more complex and more contagious than in the...
4 January 2016
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article argues that rapid recent global economic shocks have revealed a poor man's patriarchy – a washed-out version of ancient...
3 November 2015
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
This is a Summary of the third year results of the study Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, which uncover the realities of what people on low and precarious incomes are eating.
30 October 2015
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
The third year results of the study Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility uncover the realities of what people on low and precarious incomes are eating.
25 June 2015
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Despite the growing activism and debate around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little exploration of what the right means in everyday life and in the routine encounters between states and citizens.
1 October 2014
Published by: IDS
The green revolution and the global integration of food markets were supposed to relegate scarcity to the annals of history. So why did thousands of people in dozens of countries take to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011? Are food riots the surest route to securing the right to food in the 21st century?
30 November 2014
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The green revolution and the global integration of food markets were supposed to relegate scarcity to the annals of history. So why did thousands of people in dozens of countries take to the streets when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011?
5 June 2014
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
The second year results of a four-year study on how food price volatility affects everyday life uncovers the grassroots realities of the right to food.
5 June 2014
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
The second year results of a four-year study on how food price volatility affects everyday life uncovers the grassroots realities of the right to food.
5 June 2014
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
Does more talk of the right to food and more action on food security amount to more accountability and effectiveness in tackling hunger?