Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions

This book interrogates when world food prices spiked in 2008 and 2011, a period of historical rupture in the global system of subsistence, getting behind the headlines and inside the politics of this global food crisis.

Naomi Hossain is a political sociologist at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. Her most recent book is The Aid Lab: Understanding Bangladesh's Unexpected Success (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Patta Scott-Villiers is a political sociologist and convenes the Power and Popular Politics Cluster at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. She is lead author of Precarious Lives: Food Work and Care after the Global Food Crisis (Institute of Development Studies, 2016).