Steve Wiggins

Research Fellow, Agricultural Development and Policy

Steve Wiggins has been studying and working on agricultural and rural development in Africa and Latin America since 1972.

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Food prices update August 2013

Publication - Research reports and studies - 5 September 2013

Food price updates

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

ODI’s food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. They also follow international food and commodity price indices.

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August podcast: rice prices, refugees, G20

Opinion - Podcasts and audio - 28 August 2013

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In this month’s podcast we take a look at the price of rice, discuss why so many refugees are choosing to seek sanctuary in the city and look ahead to the G20.

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The end of cheap rice: a cause for celebration?

Publication - Briefing papers - 14 August 2013

ODI Briefings 82

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

Cheap rice may well be a thing of the past according to this new ODI Briefing which says that growing pressure on land and water resources, coupled with population growth, may be pushing the world towards an era of higher prices.

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Shockwatch: food prices annual review

Publication - Research reports and studies - 9 July 2013

Food price updates

Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

ODI’s food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. This issue is an annual review for the year ending April 2013. Also included is a special update: ‘Five years on from the price spike’.

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