... with the splendid Lisa Mullins. I was there to talk about food riots. Unfortunately, I wasn't terribly coherent and, despite the skilled ...

blog entry - Raj - 10 Apr 2008 - 17:45 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... finishing work on an academic article about the return of food riots, which I'm co-writing with my good friend Phil McMichael. As part of that ...

blog entry - Raj - 15 Dec 2008 - 16:12 - 11 comments - 2 attachments

... Worse, these figures don't include the recent increases in food prices. Poor people around the world, particularly in cities where you ... this choice. In Haiti, as Reuters reports below, food riots have broken out again. Sadly, they're not likely to be the only ones we ...

blog entry - Raj - 27 Aug 2008 - 18:17 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

... I’d been holding back on posting all my thoughts about food riots so that I could pull them out of the hat today with a comment piece in ...

blog entry - Raj - 13 Apr 2008 - 23:24 - 20 comments - 0 attachments

... the only man who thinks the best way out of the current food crisis is yet more of the same policies that got us into it. Stephen ... it to the glories of the free market in all its key food commodities. The country looks like this: Haiti is the ...

blog entry - Raj - 24 Apr 2008 - 04:08 - 1 comment - 1 attachment

... by being the only major newspaper to take the global food price rises at all seriously. On Monday, front page above the fold, an article on the UN's call for $500m in food aid to avoid famine. Yesterday, on rice rationing in the Philippines ...

blog entry - Raj - 29 Mar 2008 - 00:07 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Food First , the Institute at which I'm a Fellow in Oakland, California, has ... Sustainable . They've also got this handy list of food riots, to which we can add the travails in Argentina (thanks to Mary ...

blog entry - Raj - 5 Apr 2008 - 22:49 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

The New York Times ran a special food-themed issue of its Sunday magazine a week back. It was kicked off by a ... recent months more than 30 countries have experienced food riots which are, more often than not, protests that result from planned and ...

blog entry - Raj - 23 Oct 2008 - 06:37 - 52 comments - 1 attachment

I've been doing a bit of writing on food riots or, rather, food rebellions - riot suggests that there's no politics involved. A book ...

blog entry - Raj - 6 Apr 2009 - 15:21 - 16 comments - 0 attachments

... of days. If you're in New York and are interested in the food riots that happened there in 1917, I'll be talking tomorrow after a ...

blog entry - Raj - 10 Jun 2009 - 16:08 - 8 comments - 0 attachments