As an unobservable attribute, food safety is likely to be under-provided by markets where regulatory enforcement is weak.

The climate change forecasts for Ethiopia predict higher temperature and rainfall and increased variability in rainfall with periodic severe droughts and floods.

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

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

This article examines the short‐term effects of the COVID‐19 lockdown on food security and nutrition in rural Guatemala.

Coronavirus disease 2019 and related lockdown policies in 2020 shocked food industry firms’ supply chains in developing regions. Firms “pivoted” to e‐commerce to reach consumers and e‐procurement to reach processors and farmers.

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

This paper describes and tests the feasibility of Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI), a new way to deliver affordable and easy-to-understand insurance.

Bundling agricultural insurance with climate-smart technologies and practices (CSA) can help improve risk management for smallholder farmers. This paper analyzes how bundling affects demand for insurance and CSA.