This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and … insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … examines the general relationships between these variables and finds that reports of food hardships are positively associated …

Food production and distribution is essential for human well-being, but the food sector has experienced a number of … persons recently employed in the U.S. food sector with a focus on food manufacturing and grocery stores. We find that the … pandemic significantly reduced the probability of continued active employment for previous workers in both food manufacturing …

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling … estimation and ii) identifying the channels through which food aid influences conflict. We argue that future work should contain …

The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food … conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of … a training. Among randomly assigned groups of street-food vendors in Kolkata, India, we find large improvements in …

Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in … the US. Unfortunately, we know very little about the determinants of food security except that it is not synonymous with … poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial …

food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold …, savings and wage income, which lead to improved food security. Given minimal changes in the adoption of relatively expensive …

-term impact on food security, household savings, assets and participation in microfinance. Participant women are less likely to be …