17 but people are justifiably aggrieved when their purchasing power to meet their basic needs faces a shock, and their governments are not inclined to act to protect them. Figure 6 Frequency of protests by grievance 1800 1350 900 450 0 Nov 2021Dec 2021 Jan 2021 Feb 2022 Mar Apr 2022 May Jun 2022 Jul 2022 Aug 2022 Sept Oct 2022 2022 2022 Food Energy Cost of Living 2022 Source: Authors' analysis of ACLED data Food, energy and the rising cost of living In 2022, complaints about food varied in their specifics, but mostly cohered around the problem of higher prices and their knock-on effects. Steep rises in the prices of staple foods were the most common concerns, but this grievance was articulated in different ways across different settings. South Koreans protested around their‘right to food’, while in China the small number of food-related protests(which included some violent riots) related to access to foodstuffs during the strict lockdown regimes of the pandemic. Students protested about the declining quality and inadequacy of food and food vouchers in their educational institutions in India(in several states), Ghana, Colombia, South Africa, Chile, the US(Pennsylvania), Bangladesh, Greece, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Iran, Bolivia, Zimbabwe and in Sudan, where primary school students joined high school students in their protests. In Chile, ‘hundreds’ of students demonstrated for food subsidies for students in the national budget, calling for action by the new president Gabriel Boric, himself a former student activist and veteran of anti-inequality protests (Euronews 2022). Public-sector workers campaigning for food allowances featured in several countries, while supplies for soup kitchens were a major theme in Argentina. Of the 20 food-related protests in Pakistan, 16 took place on the same day in January 2022 across Gilgit-Baltistan, part of the Kashmir region administered by Pakistan. Protestors