Blogs
Campaign briefing: Collective solutions to changing food prices
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 June 2013
Campaigns: Food
Access to adequate food is a basic human need and right. However, throughout most of the world, it is distributed mainly through markets, meaning that access is determined by consumers’ […]
Read moreMP briefing: tackling hunger and protecting consumers
Type: MP briefings
Date: 1 April 2013
Campaigns: Food
In 2008, food prices reached record levels rising 80 per cent in 18 months then declining rapidly. Since 2009 prices have climbed again reaching a new record peak in early […]
Read moreInvestment banks’ revenue from food speculation 2010-2012
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 March 2013
Campaigns: Food
Based on the calculations below, we estimate that in the three years 2010 to 2012, the top five banks involved in food speculation – Barclays, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP […]
Read moreTransforming our food system: the movement for food sovereignty
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 October 2012
Campaigns: Food
WDM’s campaign to curb speculation on food tackles one aspect of a broken food system. We’re also helping to build a movement for a just global food system, inspired by […]
Read moreBriefing: food Sovereignty
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 October 2012
Campaigns: Food
WDM’s campaign to curb speculation on food tackles one aspect of a broken food system. We’re also helping to build a movement for a just global food system, inspired by […]
Read moreTricky questions briefing: Food sovereignty
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 September 2012
Campaigns: Food
Download our briefing where we answer common tricky questions such as: What is food sovereignty? Why do we need to change the food system? How do we achieve food sovereignty? […]
Read moreBroken markets – How financial market regulation can help prevent another global food crisis
Type: Reports
Date: 1 September 2011
Campaigns: Food
Broken Markets seeks to counter the arguments put forward by those sceptical of the influence of financial speculation on rising food prices. It shows how financial speculation has boomed, turning commodity derivatives into just […]
Read moreStop Gambling on Food & Hunger
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 January 2011
Campaigns: Food
Call for Immediate Action on Financial Speculation on Food Commodities – list of signatories
Read moreThe Great Hunger Lottery – How banking speculation causes food crises
Type: Reports
Date: 1 July 2010
Campaigns: Food
In The Great Hunger Lottery, the World Development Movement has compiled extensive evidence establishing the role of food commodity derivatives in destabilising and driving up food prices around the world. […]
Read moreStructural damage – The causes and consequences of Malawi’s food crisis
Type: Reports
Date: 29 October 2002
Campaigns: Food
There is a common perception that the food crisis in Malawi has been caused by the floods that ruined the planting season in 2001, or by widespread government corruption and […]
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