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armed con-flict, mitigating climate change and combating hunger and poverty are the most urgent challenges facing the world …
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Our food supply rests on a foundation of agricultural seed. As the world races to meet soaring food demand, the … the U.S. corn and soybean seed industry, which may become the model for other crop sectors and world markets. It analyzes …
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This short essay on financial speculation with agricultural commodities offers (1) a survey 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...
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This article uses evidence from the egg industry to investigate how the shift from food-away-from-home and towards food-at-home affected the U.S. food supply chain. We find that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic increased retail and farm-gate prices for table eggs by approximately 141% and...
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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present …
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We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers' exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on...
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High food prices can be an immediate threat to household food security, undermining population health, retarding human development, and lowering labor productivity for the economy in the long term. We employ a panel dataset covering 63 developing countries from 2001 to 2010 to make a...
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High and volatile food prices pose a significant policy challenge around the world, and an understanding of the …
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