Volume 46. Issue 6: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility
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Introduction: How Prices Rose and Lives Changed
(01/11/2015)Between 2007 and 2012 global food price volatility affected millions of people on low and precarious incomes. Research partners from ten developing countries accompanied households in rural and urban sites, from just after ... -
From Global to Local and Back Again: Researching Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility
(01/11/2015)This article sets out the thinking behind the research methodology used in the Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility project. It sets out the key questions and aims, describes the approach, and explains why we chose the ... -
Anomaly or Augury? Global Food Prices Since 2007
(01/11/2015)This article reviews the dynamics of global food prices since the food crisis of2007–08, the extent to which international prices have influenced national prices and poverty and wellbeing outcomes, and considers whether ... -
Macro Events and Micro Responses: Experiences from Bolivia and Guatemala
(01/11/2015)For Bolivia and Guatemala, the2007–08 food price crisis contributed to a slowdown in the economy and increased unemployment. For the poorer population the crisis meant an overstretching of the household finances and increased ... -
Disaggregated Analysis: The Key to Understanding Wellbeing in Kenya in the Context of Food Price Volatility
(01/11/2015)This article provides a national?level picture of food security and wellbeing in Kenya, focusing on the situation before the 2008 food price crisis, and the period after 2008. The extent and impact of food price changes ... -
Eat With Us: Insight into Household Food Habits in a Time of Food Price Volatility in Zambian Communities
(01/11/2015)Dramatic food price rises in Zambia followed the global food price crisis of 2008 and caused long?term damage to the lives and livelihoods of many low?income families. This article provides a view on what food was and is ... -
The Role of Fatalism in Resilience to Food Price Volatility in Bangladesh
(01/11/2015)Millions of people in Bangladesh suffer from hunger, unpredictable and unstable livelihoods, precarious living conditions and social injustice. Yet they survive and become resilient. However, the resilience achieved by the ... -
Food Prices and the Politics of Hunger: Beneath Market and State
(01/11/2015)What accounts for the persistence of hunger and undernutrition in political and administrative systems which might be otherwise sensitive to the risk of food price volatility and market failure? If pre?empting food price ... -
Food Price Volatility in Ethiopia: Public Pressure and State Response
(01/11/2015)The global market, variable agricultural production and irregular trading practices have marked food price volatility in Ethiopia over the last decade. However, the recent decline in global prices of food and fuel, coupled ... -
How to Support Poor Vietnamese Consumers to Deal with Food Price Volatility and Food Safety Issues
(01/11/2015)With 66 per cent of the population living in rural areas, over half depending on farm activities, food security and food safety are now two sides of the government effort to ensure food accessibility for the poor in Vietnam. ... -
Food Price Volatility and the Worrying Trend in Children's Snacking in Indonesia
(01/11/2015)Rising food prices, increasing urbanisation, rising numbers of working women and reduced time for care has led to more children eating more pre?prepared and instant food in Indonesia. Besides the durability of much packaged ... -
Life Around the Firewood Stove: The Impact of Price Volatility
(01/11/2015)The cooking fire at home is an important site for the transmission, through the oral tradition, of the continuity of history and culture. In Guatemala, cooking and eating around the fire is one of the ancestral practices ... -
Social Change, New Food Habits and Food Price Volatility in Burkina Faso
(01/11/2015)Food price volatility is at the core of many changes in people's livelihoods. Burkina Faso is one of the poorest countries in the world, and as such its population is hard hit by fluctuations in food prices. During our ... -
‘Tell Me What You Eat and I'll Tell You Who You Are’: Changing Eating Habits in Cochabamba, Bolivia
(01/11/2015)This article describes changes in the lives of families in two communities in the Cochabamba Region, Bolivia, caused in part by food price volatility. It questions whether government policy aimed at ‘Vivir Bien’ (Living ... -
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