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Rising Food Prices: A Photo Essay

Last updated on June 28, 2011

PBS’ NewsHour posted a link to a photo essay about how rising food prices have hit a small Indonesian town.

Looking at the last picture, I am reminded that it was Indo-Malays who left Indonesia around 1,000 CE, sailed around the Indian Ocean, and decided to colonize Madagascar. The meal that Indonesian family resembles many of the meals I have eaten in and around Ambatondrazaka in 2004, when conducting fieldwork for my dissertation.

(HT: World Food Programme, via Twitter.)