Impact of Mobile Phone Coverage Expansion on Market Participation: Panel Data...
With the coverage of cellular networks expanding rapidly across the developing world, researchers are investigating how the access to information that mobile phones make possible can be leveraged to...
View ArticleGlobal Changes in Diets and the Consequences for Land Requirements for Food
As the world population increases and more developing countries transform into middle-income countries, there will be substantially more demand for food. Agricultural production will need to increase...
View ArticleThe Role of Local Food Availability in Explaining Obesity Risk among Young...
Rates of youth obesity in the United States have more than tripled over the past three decades, with about a third of children and adolescents now categorized as obese, according to the Centers for...
View ArticleThe End of Farm Labor Abundance
The San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2012 that shortages in the agricultural labor pool left California farmers struggling to harvest their crops. The U.S. Department of Labor notes that 75% of U.S....
View ArticleGlobal Land and Water Grabbing
For the majority of the developed world, water long ago ceased to be something drawn from a nearby well. Even in the mid-1800s, New York and other rapidly growing cities were reaching outward to divert...
View ArticlePrice and Expenditure Elasticities for Fresh Fruit in an Urban Food Desert
The term “food desert” is used to refer to low-income, inner-city areas that lack traditional, full-service grocery stores. The concern is that residents of such neighborhoods — often minorities — have...
View ArticleGlobal Food Crisises, Food Insecurity and Measuring Hunger
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has estimated that from 2010 to 2012, nearly 870 million people in the world lacked sufficient food — more than 12% at the time. Within...
View ArticleRed Meat Consumption and Mortality
Although it is commonly known that meat products are not necessarily healthful when consumed in large quantities, for a long time researchers had not confirmed the precise link between red meat and...
View ArticleAssessing the Impact of Training on Lowland Rice Productivity in an African...
While the green revolution of the 1960s brought significant improvements to the agricultural productivity of Asia and Latin America, the revolution has not enjoyed the same success in sub-Saharan...
View ArticleRecent Land Use Change in the Western Corn Belt Threatens Grasslands and...
Think of deforestation and images of the Amazon river basin stripped of trees are likely to come to mind. But the loss of wild lands and natural habitat to pastures and sprawling cities isn’t...
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Commodity prices, food and violent conflict: How price shocks affect civil...
Even as new agricultural technologies develop, food insecurity remains a grave problem throughout many parts of the world. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 12.5% of the...
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Biofuels, energy security, the environment and human health: Research roundup
To reduce the dependence of the United States on oil imports, in 2007 Congress enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act, which set a target of 36 billion gallons of fuel based on renewable...
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Global Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production Doubled in the 20th Century
“Sustainability” is a term that is frequently thrown around rather loosely, but its use tends to be restricted to specific practices or areas — sustainable urbanism, agriculture or energy, for example....
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Do high food prices increase food insecurity in the United States?
2013 study in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy on how higher local food prices correlate with higher food insecurity among the poor.The post Do high food prices increase food insecurity in the...
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Anthropogenic emissions of methane in the United States
A 2013 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences seeking to better quantify the current levels, regions and sectors that are the key sources of methane in the United...
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Global changes in diets and new land requirements
2012 study in PNAS on the problematic pace of global land consumption and agricultural output required to supply the world's growing population. The post Global changes in diets and the consequences...
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Local food availability and obesity risk among children
2012 study in the Journal of Social Science and Medicine on relationship between access to healthful food and obesity trends among youth. The post Local food availability and obesity risk among...
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Mexico, America and Decreasing Farm Labor
2012 study from the University of California, Davis, and El Colegio de Mexico on farm labor supply in the U.S. and Mexican migration patterns. The post The end of farm labor abundance in the United...
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Global rates of land and freshwater grabbing
2013 study from the Polytechnic University of Milan and the University of Virginia on international land and water purchases by nations and corporations. The post Global land and water grabbing...
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New school-meal standards and food selection, waste
2014 study the Harvard School of Public Health on how the new school food standards of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have affected students' meal choices and behavior. The post Impact of the new...
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