Policy expectations from biofuels have been a widely contested issue. Lately, the risks and
uncertainties associated with the unintended consequences of biofuels in terms of food and …

Global palm oil production has greatly increased in recent years with the adoption of
renewable energy policies by the EU and USA and growing demand for its use in food …

It is widely believed that oil prices impact food prices in developing countries. Yet rigorous
evidence on this relationship is scarce. Using maize and petrol price data from east Africa …

The global food crises of 2008 and 2010 and the increased price volatility revolve around
biofuels policies and their interaction with each other, farm policies and between countries …

This paper replicates the study of Zhang et al.(2010):“Food versus fuel: What do prices tell
us?” Energy Policy 38, pp. 445-451. We confirm the findings of the original paper that there …

We use the wavelet coherence methodology to investigate the relations between prices of
ethanol and its feedstocks. Our continuous wavelet framework allows for discovering price …

We analyse the threats of global environmental change, as they relate to food security. First,
we review three discourses:(i)'sustainable intensification', or the increase of food supplies …

Using US and global data we estimate auto-regressive models of US and global food prices
as a function of oil prices, GDP per capita and biofuels production. Our model results …

The war in the breadbasket of Europe, which spawned at the heels of the once‐in‐a‐lifetime
pandemic, sent major cereal prices spiralling upward. The unprecedented sequence of …

The objective of this paper is to examine the importance of energy and climate shocks in
Uganda's food price processes. The unique features of this paper are threefold: first, we …