This research identifies and quantifies the impact of biophysical and economic variables on Kansas grain supply for the …

estimated for grain demanded by urban Chinese households. The high grain expenditure elasticities, which usually translate into … high income elasticities, are doubtful for making a long-term prediction of grain demand in China. Unlike most previous … variables to explore the impact of habit effects as well as demographic impacts on household level food demand pattern in urban …

We use newly nonparametric volatility measures and break techniques to estimate common breaks across grain futures over …

justified by the high volatility in grain prices and the need to understand how shocks are diffused across markets. We use … monthly prices on the international markets of the different grain for a relatively long period from January 1960 to December … structural upward shifts in their trend explain the observed persistence of shock in grain markets. Using Johansen cointegration …

The literature on the impacts of biofuels on food prices is characterized by contradictory findings and a wide range of … for food security worldwide. The literature suggests that biofuels expansion will raise the number of people at risk of …

, increase in population and economic growth leads to a global-wide increase in agriculture production, rise in price of food … allocate slightly more land for crop and food production, leading to gentle loss of natural grassland and natural forestland …

become controversial. On the one hand, production of corn-based biofuels creates a ‘food/feed vs. fuel’ tradeoff condition …