The end of cheap food and what it means for development
Launch event - Oxfam GB/IDS report: 'Precarious Lives: Food, Work and Care after the Global Food Crisis'.
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Launch event - Oxfam GB/IDS report: 'Precarious Lives: Food, Work and Care after the Global Food Crisis'.
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
The global food crisis of 2007-11 left food prices higher and more volatile than they had been for a generation. The Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility project explored the everyday aspects of people's lives, as they responded to this change in prices. The project found that people are no longer experiencing price rises as shocks but rather as a constant pressure, particularly as wages are no
New IDS research reveals the hidden costs of the recent global food price crisis.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The global food crisis of 2007–11 brought about lasting changes to the relationship between the work people do and the food they eat. Real-time research conducted by IDS, Oxfam and research partners in ten focus countries has found the cost of these changes has gone uncounted.
Published by: IDS and Oxfam
This report finds that the global food crises of 2007-11 has brougth about lasting changes to the relationship between the work people do and the food they eat - the costs of which have gone uncounted.