On Wednesday 14th September 2016 during the Development Studies Association conference held at the University of Oxford, Dr. Deborah Johnston (SOAS, University of London), in collaboration with Nazia Mintz-Habib (University of Cambridge) and Sam Mardell (London International Development Centre) organised a panel on “Inequality and complexity in access to food“. The variety of ways that food can be acquired have been studied by a range of disciplines. This panel has contributed to elucidate the various dynamics of food access from an intra-household to national level from a political-economy perspective. The FNHD cluster members have presented the following papers:

An analysis of the gendered determinants of food insecurity in northern Mozambique Sara Stevano .This paper develops a gender analysis of food insecurity in northern Mozambique. It finds that different gendered forms of deprivation, such as lack of secure employment and multiple labour demands, interact with each other and contribute the production of vicious cycles of food insecurity

Business Response to Food Price Spikes: A case study of cash crop wage workers Deborah Johnston. Under what conditions will business provide a solution to difficulties in food access? This paper looks at the response to food price spikes by large-scale flower farms in Ethiopia.

Drivers of Food System Change and Dietary Transition in LMICs Mehroosh Tak. The paper examines determinants of global food systems change – retail and procurement systems, food transformation, markets and agricultural production – that are increasingly influencing structures of local food acquisition and thereby diets in LMICs.

Patterns of food consumption and crop commercialisation in Uzbekistan agrarian change: Is cotton in competition with quality Food? Lorena Lombardozzi. This paper investigates the relationship between crops diversification and diets diversification though a political-economy analysis of the patterns of agrarian production and food consumption In rural district of Uzbekistan.