Can popular mobilisation activate accountability for hunger? In 2012, a group of researchers set out to explore this question through field research in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Mozambique. The research was framed in ideas about a contemporary ‘moral economy’ – which when breached, would lead people to mobilise – either in the form of riots, or as movements for the right to food, thus activating state responses.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/popular-actions-state-reactions-moral-and-political-economy-food-india
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/dipa-sinha
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/biraj-patnaik
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/vaibhav-raaj
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/et-al
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/institute-development-studies
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-prices
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/food-security
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/nutrition
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/public-distribution-system-pds
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/mid-day-meal-programme
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/integrated-child-development-services-icds
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/human-rights