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Research report

Delicious, Disgusting, Dangerous: Eating in a time of food price volatility

03/11/2015

1 documents

70 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

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. For the consumer, there are undeniable benefits from the integration of world food trade: more stable supply and wider choice. Changes in food habits mean people are […]

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Research report

Help Yourself! Food Rights and Responsibilities: Year 2 findings from Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility

05/06/2014

12 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Help Yourself! provides the second year results of a four-year study on how food price volatility affects everyday life and uncovers grassroots realities related to the right to food. Do people at risk of hunger think they have a right to food? What does a right to food mean, and how can it be claimed […]

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Research report

Squeezed: Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility, Year 1 results

23/05/2013

9 documents

110 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rise and fall rapidly, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And […]

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Briefing note

Africa is Wide Awake But Still Hungry

26/12/2012

1 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

One of the most remarkable turn-arounds in development occurred in the last decade in many of the countries south of the Sahara. Economies have been growing even in the face of economic and financial instability elsewhere in the world; poverty has fallen and child mortality has dropped considerably, among the most visible indicators of progress. […]

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Book

Fair Food Miles: Recharting the food miles map

10/12/2009

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

Today’s food is well travelled. A pack of green beans in a Northern supermarket may have journeyed 6000 miles, or 60. But while food miles loom large in our carbon-aware times, transporting it counts for less than you might think. And there is a far bigger picture. Food is more than a plateful of emissions. […]

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Briefing paper

Hang Together or Separately? How global cooperation is key to a fair and adequate climate deal at Copenhagen

11/06/2009

6 documents

44 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Climate finance

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A fair and adequate global climate regime requires a massive effort across the board to reduce the risks to lives and livelihoods that poor people face first and most. Rich countries must reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions first and fastest, with ambitious targets at home. High levels of rich-country pollution over the last century mean […]

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Briefing paper

4-a-week: Changing food consumption in the UK to benefit people and planet

06/03/2009

1 documents

37 pages long

Languages: English

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Food security

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The food we buy every week can have huge impacts on people and environments seemingly worlds away from our regular dash round the shops. The futures of some of the world’s poorest people and of the global environment are intimately linked to the contents of our shopping baskets. How we shop, what we eat, and […]

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Briefing note

If Not Now, When? Three actions the G20 must take now to protect the world’s poor from the economic crisis and build a new political and economic governance system

13/11/2008

3 documents

13 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Overview

The world’s poor must not pay the price for the collapse of financial markets. Without immediate action, millions will suffer. Poor women and children will pay for the financial folly, failed ideology and crude self-interest that led to this crisis. Much of the burden will be borne by those least able to cope, whether it […]

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Discussion paper

Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Technology, and Economic Growth

14/06/2008

1 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English

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Overview

This paper addresses the debate about whether a combination of innovation and technology transfer will be sufficient to allow us to adapt to climate change and reduce emissions to a sustainable level, without any reduction in overall economic growth levels.

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