Hunger is once again stalking the planet.1 The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s World Food Price Index hit a record high of 159.3 points in March this year, up 12.6 percent from February as fertiliser prices soared and the… Continue Reading
Elaine Graham-Leigh, A Diet of Austerity: Class, Food and Climate Change (Zero Books, 2015), £12.99 In December last year the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger in the UK, “Feeding Britain” (funded from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Charitable Trust), reported… Continue Reading
The ancestor of modern cheap food policies, the repeal of the Corn Laws in Britain in 1846, was spurred by growing unrest within the swelling cities of an industrialising economy. In 1848 that unrest burst out into a series of… Continue Reading