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LONDON, 25 May 2011 (IRIN): Banu Bibi’s shopping basket is becoming emptier. When she goes shopping in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she spends more than a year ago, but that money buys less.
In 2010, for 134 taka (9 DKR), she could afford lentils (linser) and laundry soap, and the family’s favourite fish. This year she has to spend 185 taka (12,50 DKR) just for the basics: more rice to make up for the lack of other food, and cheaper vegetables.
Banu Bibi lives in one of eight communities picked by a research team from the Institute of Development Studies in the UK to track the effects of rising food and fuel prices.
For three years, with the help of partner organizations in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Zambia and Kenya, they have been talking to people in selected rural and urban communities about how rising prices affect their lives.
Banu Bibi’s experience is fairly typical. Her family is not starving; they still have food, but it is not the food they like and is not as nutritious (ernæringsrig) as it could be. They certainly ate more and ate better before the food price shock and financial crisis of 2008.
And across the world, homemakers (husmødre) are having to work harder, spending more time shopping or looking for food, and planning more carefully to stretch their budgets to feed their families.
A woman in Lango Baya, Kenya, spoke for many when she told the researchers: “You go to a shop to buy something with the same amount as you paid the previous day, only to be told that prices have risen.”
Although food and fuel prices did fall after the initial spike in 2008, they never went back to their previous levels, and this year they have jumped again.
Only one of the four countries studied has experienced some respite this year – Zambia, where the price of maize, the staple food, has not increased.
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