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Food prices and how people are eating: Views from 'Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility'
Kelbert, Alexandra Wanjiku Chisholm, Nick
Kelbert, Alexandra Wanjiku
Chisholm, Nick
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2014-08-26
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<p class="text">How do households cope with increases in food prices? How have their eating habits changed in the face of food price volatility?</p>
<p class="text">These case studies form part of the second year of Oxfam–<a href="https://www.ids.ac.uk/">IDS</a> research project <a href="http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/our-work/food-livelihoods/food-price-volatility-research" target="_blank"><em>Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility</em></a>, which examines how food price volatility affects everyday life in 10 low- and middle-income countries. They examine food prices and how people are eating in five of those countries: Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Kenya, Pakistan and Vietnam, providing first-hand accounts from participant households. For many, increased food prices means adjusting food consumption downwards, both in quantity and quality, which has a wider effect on wellbeing.</p>
<p class="text">Three of these case studies take a broader view of food price increases in Bangladesh, Kenya and Pakistan in 2013, and show that politics and policies have a significant impact on prices. Governments can directly – for good or ill – influence the wellbeing of the poor through decisions on policy instruments such as taxation and levels of subsidies.</p>
<p class="text"><span>The research is funded by the UK Government and Irish Aid. <span>Read the global reports from year one of the project, </span><em><a href="http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/squeezed-life-in-a-time-of-food-price-volatility-year-1-results-292412">Squeezed</a></em><span>, and year two, </span><em><a href="http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/help-yourself-food-rights-and-responsibilities-year-2-findings-from-life-in-a-t-317797">Help Yourself!</a></em></span></p>
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Life in a time of food price volatility
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978-1-78077-666-8