This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

Using proprietary data from Alibaba, we examine how the 2015 Food Safety Law (FSL) affects e-commerce in China. The FSL … requires most food sellers on e-commerce platforms to obtain a valid, online license for retail food handling. Because the FSL … reputation and more online food sales before FSL tend to display their FSL license earlier on the platform, and buyers are more …

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

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

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 …

Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore … the key role of agricultural technology in alleviating future food insecurity. We develop a model of technology, food … security and international trade with three distinct channels for technology reduce food insecurity in SSA. The first is via …

sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper … estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically engineered (GE) seeds on food supply by exploiting the spatial and … yield gains range from 65% for GE cotton to 12.4% for soybeans and appear to be higher in the developing world than in …

This paper deals with two issues related to the way in which the state of food insecurity in the world can be assessed …Many discussions following the 2007/08 food price crisis have revolved around the magnitude of the negative impacts … that it may have had on food security worldwide. Analysts have been asked to provide timely assessments, often based on …