April 22nd, 2015
Climate and environmental change: views from life in a time of food price volatility
Published by IDS, July 14th, 2014
This discussion paper (PDF) by IDS explores the views of people living on low and precarious incomes on the connections between food price changes and climate and environmental change. It is based on the 2012 findings of the four-year (2012–2015) Oxfam–IDS research project “Life in a Time of Food Price Volatility” which was designed to explore experiences of food price volatility, through qualitative research in 23 research sites in 10 countries. This paper suggests that the public discourse about food price changes in these low-income communities treats them as causally connected to climate change and overall the links between climate and environmental change and food insecurity for many of the respondents were robust and clear.