This paper reviews evidence on the impact of EU policies on global food security, focusing
on several EU policy areas: agricultural policy, bioenergy policy, food standards, trade …

Global food demand is rising, and serious questions remain about whether supply can
increase sustainably 1. Land-based expansion is possible but may exacerbate climate …

Applied econometricians frequently apply the inverse hyperbolic sine (or arcsinh)
transformation to a variable because it approximates the natural logarithm of that variable …

Recent food price fluctuations have sparked renewed interest in the impact of food prices on
poverty and food security. This paper reviews the literature and analyzes why different …

Supermarkets, specialized wholesalers, processors, and agro-exporters are transforming
the marketing channels into which smallholder farmers sell produce in low-income …

Can food prices cause social unrest? Throughout history, riots have frequently broken out,
ostensibly as a consequence of high food prices. Using monthly data at the international …

The inverse hyperbolic sine (IHS) transformation is frequently applied in econometric studies
to transform right-skewed variables that include zero or negative values. We show that …

Dependent variables that are non-negative, follow right-skewed distributions, and have
large probability mass at zero arise often in empirical economics. Two classes of models that …

Contract farming has often been associated with an increase in the income of participating
households. It is unclear, however, whether contract farming increases other aspects of …

Abstract The Climate Change, Global Food Security, and US Food System assessment
represents a consensus of authors and includes contributors from 19 Federal, academic …