At the current time, Hawai?i lacks an established set of benchmark estimates on the availability of food for market … estimation framework to map the existing food supply flows from various sources and to determine the various levels of food … consumption in Hawai?i. The authors suggest modified measures of food self-sufficiency and import dependency to provide a more …

We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First …) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we estimate the dynamic effects of global food commodity supply … shocks on the US economy. As an alternative, we also estimate the consequences of thirteen narratively identified global food …