Cost of living - The Facts

Cost of living - The Facts

Inflation, poverty and hunger, debt, profit and inequality.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
A wheat crop is sprayed with chemicals in South Africa. Chemical-heavy agriculture has brought despair to farmers in Punjab and Haryana, the epicentres of the Green Revolution in India.Photo: Dewald Kirsten/Shutterstock

No more green revolutions

Foreign seeds and fertilizers will not bring food security. Raj Patel explains why.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
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Where does all the food go?

How much do we make? Who gets it? What's being over or under consumed? How much do we need?

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
10 steps to end world hunger

10 steps to end world hunger

How to create a food system where everyone gets to eat.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Illustration: Pete Reynolds

Death by Covid-19 – or hunger?

The pandemic has left millions of people on the brink of starvation. Hazel Healy asks why our food system is failing the poorest so badly – and offers a glimpse of a more equitable path. With extra reporting by Mohamed Camara.

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NI 527 - Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic - September, 2020
Protesters against Argentina’s hunger crisis gather for a brew, 5 September 2019. They had camped out overnight in front of the Ministry of Social Development in Buenos Aires.Photo: Carol Smiljan/NurPhoto/PA

Argentina’s big squeeze

Why is hunger growing in a country known as an agricultural powerhouse? Amy Booth reports from Buenos Aires.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Three-year-old Kholod is admitted to hospital in Hudaida, Yemen suffering from severe acute malnutrition.* One of five children, her father is a teacher but he has not been paid for a year. Extreme hunger and disease are killing around 130 children every day in Yemen, according to Save the Children. [*We would not normally use a picture like this one in New Internationalist, but we felt that at a time when humanitarianism is under attack, it was important to show what is at stake, especially in an article that makes clear that famine is not just bad luck, it's political – ed.]Photo: Giles Clarke, UN OCHA / Getty Images

How can famines be ended?

Mass starvation is making a comeback as a weapon of war. To tackle this great evil we must stop talking about food and over-population, and engage with the politics, argues Alex de Waal.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Special relationship: Turkish President Recep Erdoğan and his wife are welcomed to Mogadishu by then-President of Somalia, Sheikh Mohamoud in 2016.Photo: Kaylan Ozer Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

How Turkey is winning hearts and minds

In 2011, Western donors sat back while 250,000 Somalis died of starvation. Then Turkey stepped in. Jamal Osman reports on the rise of aid from the Muslim world.

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NI 511 - Humanitarianism under attack - April, 2018
Cash averts famine in Somalia

Cash averts famine in Somalia

SIM cards loaded with cash handed out across the country have been credited with staving off a Somali famine after warnings of an impending crisis in February. Roshni Majumdar reports.

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NI 507 - Humans vs robots - November, 2017

20 years ago...

Chris Brazier looks back at our May 1995 issue.

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NI 482 - Global banking now - May, 2015
Who profits from the 7 billion population frenzy?

Who profits from the 7 billion population frenzy?

Vanessa Baird on why, when it comes to human numbers, nothing sells like fear.

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NI 447 - Banking on Hunger - November, 2011
Agriculture is high on the list for change in Egypt.Mark Henley / Panos

Egypt's freedom harvest

Rami Zurayk says the Arab uprisings offer a unique chance to embrace food sovereignty.

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NI 447 - Banking on Hunger - November, 2011
Too little, too late? Children walk past an African Union Mission soldier from Uganda at a food distribution centre in Mogadishu.Ho New / Reuters

Who is to blame for the Somali famine?

Is it the US government? Is it Al Shabab? Is it the UN? Sally Healy argues it is the result of a collective failure.

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NI 446 - Nature's defenders - October, 2011
Photo by Andrew Kokotka.

Meat's too expensive

Chris Brazier makes the case for a green and fair diet.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
Indigenous protestors rally against APEC and high food prices in the ancient Peruvian capital of Cuzco. Photo by Miguel Araoz Cartagena

Food last!

Across the world, popular protest has demanded adequate food and fair prices. Stephanie Boyd reports from Cuzco in Peru.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008
Farmers try to scratch out a living in Ethiopia’s remote south Wollo province – no corporate saviours here.  Photo by Boris Heger / Report Digital

Profits in hungry times

Agribusiness and industrial farming: 10; farmers and the famished: nil. A report from the campaign group GRAIN.

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NI 418 - Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? - December, 2008

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Article title From magazine Publication date
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Romani lives matter January, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
A caring economy November, 2020
Covid-19 lessons from the pandemic September, 2020
How we make poverty March, 2020
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Humanitarianism under attack April, 2018
Humans vs robots November, 2017
Global banking now May, 2015
Banking on Hunger November, 2011
Banking on Hunger November, 2011
Banking on Hunger November, 2011
Nature's defenders October, 2011
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
Crisis! Crisis! Food... Money... What next? December, 2008
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