Campaign briefing: Collective solutions to changing food prices

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’ ability to pay, and returns for producers are dependent on the market price. Changes in these prices can have dramatic consequences for people’s quality of life – especially those living in poverty. But collective solutions do exist, and are being put into practice around the world.

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