This paper uses comprehensive and long time series monthly food price data and a panel dyadic regression framework to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses on spatial market integration across a diverse set o

A long history of empirical research has focused on testing whether and when household consumption and production decisions are separable. If markets were perfect, household consumption would be independent of production.

Aspirations influence future-oriented behavior and ensuing outcomes but they may also fail to do so when the aspired-to-status is far away from the current one.

Modern cooling technologies that utilize renewable energy sources have been increasingly recognized as promising tools to address various challenges emerging in progressively complex agrifood systems in developing countries.

In developing countries, incomplete and/or asymmetric information contributes to inefficiencies in food supply chains.

Public expenditures (PEs) are critical for key public-sector functions that contribute to the development and welfare improvements.

This study assesses the extent of COVID-19-related food insecurity in Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia.

Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, an

This article analyzes how urban proximity introduces spatial heterogeneity in farm productivity within the high-value dairy sector in Ethiopia.

In March 2020, India declared a nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Such restrictions on mobility interrupted the normal functioning of agricultural value chains.

The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID‐19.

It is widely feared that the shock of the COVID‐19 pandemic will lead to a significant worsening of the food security situation in low and middle‐income countries.

This study assesses the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) on poverty, food insecurity, and diets, accounting for the complex links between the crisis and the incomes and living costs of vulnerable households.

How can decisionmakers resolve the tension between optimal long-run policies and short-run initiatives to address food security concerns?