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,...

The European agricultural sectors and the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) face the triple challenge of productivity increase to meet increasing demands for food, fibre and energy, pressing public policy issues regarding public health and nutrition and the public good components of agricultural...

The Commission's New Better Regulation Strategy of 2015 (NBRS) seeks to address shortcomings of Old Better Regulation by promoting an approach resembling what elsewhere has been called responsive behavioural regulation. By discussing the weaknesses of Old Better Regulation, we argue that limited...

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensional measure of hunger that considers three dimensions: (1) inadequate dietary energy supply, (2) child undernutrition, and (3) child mortality. The initial version of the index included the following three, equally weighted, non-standardized (i.e....

Voluntary standards have become a promising mode of governance to promote sustainable production and consumption in global value chains. Despite a growing number of studies on consumers' preferences for sustainable products, insufficient attention has been paid to the heterogeneity of existing...

There now is a broad theoretical discourse regarding individual duties in which arguments for different kinds of duties as well as actions have been developed. The present paper aims at systematizing this discussion and offers an independent argument that there are duties beyond compliance with...