Rising food prices are having a devastating effect on the poorest people, particularly smallholder farmers in developing countries. This short video features an isolated community in Tanzania called Qash and illustrates what can happen when smallholder farmers get access to both credit and storage facilities for their grains. In particularly, the video tells the story of one woman, Maimuna Ikangoin, who stores her grains and then finds an innovative way to invest her profits in international football competitions.

Duration: 4’ 55”
Location: Tanzania
Producer: Declan McCormack
Language: English

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The Bolivian Jungle is fast becoming an eco-tourist hotspot. Yet despite the growing number of tourists arriving each day, it’s international tour operators who profit most, not the poor indigenous people who live there. Now, thanks to the efforts of an innovative project that is helping more than 100 indigenous groups in the Amazon basin increase their incomes while preserving their culture, indigenous entrepreneurs are taking a share of the tourism market.

Duration: 4’
Location: Bolivia
Language: English, Spanish

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“Food – Who Pays the Price?” raises important questions about who produces the food we eat and how. Urbanization, climate change, changing diets in emerging economies and the impact of supermarkets are putting new pressures on the land and changing the face of farming. Meanwhile small farmers around the world are leaving the land in increasing numbers.

Staged in Rome to mark IFAD’s 30th Anniversary.
Produced by TVE for BBC World in cooperation with IFAD.

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