Many international organisations, including the European Parliament, see reducing food loss and waste as a priority. They argue that this will increase the efficiency of resource use and have beneficial environmental effects. This paper asserts that the scale of the problem has been overstated...

For quite some time long-only index funds have been suspected of being responsible for price increases in agricultural futures markets. This suspicion has prompted demands to drastically limit long-only index funds' scope of activity. Such demands and their underlying diagnoses, however,...

This is a comment on the article by West et al. (2014) on "Leverage points for improving global food security and the environment". The authors claim that the leverage points they have identified "offer the best opportunities to improve both global food security and environmental sustainability"...