This paper first considers the impact on world food prices of the changes in restrictions on trade in staple foods … during the 2008 world food price crisis. Those changes--reductions in import protection or increases in export restraints …, than are designed to provide social protection for the poor when international food prices spike. It also examines the …

There is insufficient research on the direct effects of food advertising on children's diet and diet-related health … Survey-Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) and the Nielsen Company data on spot television advertising of cereals, fast food … food advertising on television and children's food consumption and body weight. Our results suggest that soft drink and …

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

-sum transfers are not necessarily superior to distortionary trade policy. We develop this argument in the context of food export …

quality of household food purchases using the National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey (FoodAPS) and propensity … score matching. A healthy purchasing index (HPI) is used to measure nutritional quality of household food purchases. WIC … foods explain the improvement in quality of food purchases, not self-selection of more nutrition-conscious households into …

food imports from the U.S. with anthropometric and food expenditure data. Our findings suggest that exposure to food …. Pro-obesity effects are driven by areas more exposed to unhealthy food imports. We also find evidence in favour of a price …