We study the effect on nutrition of an exogenous increase in food grain subsidy in rural India resulting from a program … targeting the poor. Our analysis suggests that increase in income resulting from the food price subsidy changed consumption … in poor households. Further, our analysis shows that households allocated some of the increase in income from food price …

The OECD food waste dataset is a compilation of available data related to food loss and food waste for 32 countries …

The OECD food waste dataset is a compilation of available data related to food loss and food waste for 32 countries …

The OECD food waste dataset is a compilation of available data related to food loss and food waste for 32 countries …

volatility and its effects on food security is a complex issue with many dimensions, agricultural and non-agricultural, short and …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

How much do calorie requirements vary across households and how do they affect food consumption patterns? Since caloric … intake is a widely-used indicator of poverty and welfare, investigating changes in caloric requirements and food consumption … patterns is important, especially for the poor. Combining anthropometric and time-use data for India, we construct a …

We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In … food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and … increasingly valuable surplus as their real wages fall. In regions without crop agriculture, higher food prices increase both …

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, global food systems were faced with a formidable “triple challenge” of … simultaneously providing food security and nutrition to a growing global population, ensuring the livelihoods of millions of people … working along the food chain from farm to fork, and ensuring the environmental sustainability of the sector. Yet policy …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …