Grain Inspired Neckware Aims To Fight Global Food Crisis

When was the last time you really ever had to worry about where your next meal was coming from?

Perhaps you might have waffled back and forth between whether you should dine on Mexican or Asian, but our problems are small potatoes compared to what people in developing nations have to contend with on a daily basis.

Oxfam International states that the global credit crisis, combined with persistent droughts (brought on by climate change) is affecting everyone across the board in terms of access to healthy and affordable food, including residents from as close as Mexico to as far as Africa and Egypt.

The result is that very basic grain staples are becoming increasingly harder to access among the poorest of the poor.

London based jewelry designer Kali Arulpragasm created her latest collection of highly ornamental pieces in an effort to promote awareness about this persistent and highly problematic issue and will donate 7% of her profits to Oxfam's fight.

Entitled "Hunger," the neckware in her line is created using a wide array of grains that have been cast in sterling silver or plated gold.

Simple grains that we tend to take for granted are literally the "staff of life" for people in less fortunate circumstances.

The effect is truly impactful considering that it required Arulpragasm to cast a total of 360 grams of food for this boy's necklace (including 130 grams of beans, 100 grams of corn, 30 grams of rice, 40 grams of nuts, 45 grams of lentils and 15 grams of chick peas).

If you spotted someone on the street wearing any one of the necklaces pictured here, would the sight of so many individual pieces of grain make you rise up and try to help the cause?