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Briefing paper

Fixing Our Food: Debunking 10 myths about the global food system and what drives hunger

08/09/2022

4 documents

36 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Our unequal global food system is unsustainable for people and planet. We urgently need to rethink how the world feeds its people. The food crisis we are facing is not new. Extreme inequality and poverty, rights abuses, conflict, climate change and inflation – exacerbated by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine – mean that […]

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Research report

Everything Except the Soil: Understanding wild food consumption during the lean season in South Sudan

30/10/2017

2 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English

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Wild plants are a critical part of the regular South Sudanese diet and become even more important during the lean season. This paper explores seasonal consumption patterns and recent significant changes in those patterns in Panyijar County, Unity State during the acute food crisis in 2017. It provides information on local preferences and health perceptions […]

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Research report

Precarious Lives: Work, food and care after the global food crisis

09/09/2016

3 documents

76 pages long

Languages: English

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When food prices spiked in 2008, the international price of basic food items peaked at unprecedented levels, bringing a wave of food riots in low-income countries. Subsequent price volatility had huge impacts on millions of people who struggled to feed their families nutritiously. Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility was a real-time investigation by […]

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Research report

Food Crisis, Gender, and Resilience in the Sahel: Lessons from the 2012 crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger

16/06/2014

2 documents

58 pages long

Languages: English, French

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This report deals with the issues, or rather, with the responses to the 2012 food crisis in the Sahel, from a gender perspective. The field research, which was conducted in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, builds on past work and reflects the statements made by local people. The report finds that household resilience is inconceivable […]

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Fixing Our Food: Debunking 10 myths about the global food system and what drives hunger

Everything Except the Soil: Understanding wild food consumption during the lean season in South Sudan

Precarious Lives: Work, food and care after the global food crisis

Food Crisis, Gender, and Resilience in the Sahel: Lessons from the 2012 crisis in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger