One major concern of the Third World, with its emotional and moralistic overtones, is the production and distribution of food. Unfortunately, however, the world food situation is very complex and any over-simplification is counter-productive. This article confronts the myths with the facts...

In recent decades an increasing significance of food quality and safety standardsand agricultural health standards in international agricultural trade can beobserved. A subgroup of these standards is constituted by standards schemesrequired by private industry actors, like for example the...

In this paper we investigate the size of the consumption drop at retirement in Italy. We use micro data on food and total non-durable household spending covering the period 1993-2004, and evaluate the change in consumption that accompanies retirement by exploiting the exogenous variability in...