Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper investigates how food assistance and access to food changed following the announcement of famine-like conditions in the Republic of Yemen. Among the mobile phone-using population, the...

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...

Dieser Beitrag erläutert die realwirtschaftlichen Ursachen der starken Preisanstiege für Agrarrohstoffe in den Jahren 2007/8 und 2010/11. Er weist darauf hin, dass die schwe-ren Anschuldigen, finanzwirtschaftliche Akteure seien "Hungermacher" oder "Speku-lanten des Todes", gemessen am...

This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a sur-vey of the real economy factors that caused recent hunger crises, (2) an overview of academic research on the impact of index-based financial speculation on agricultural futures markets, and (3) a discussion...