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This handbook examines food security in developed and developing countries, and looks at how to provide enough food for everyone and ensure countries have an equal share. The first section covers the application of the core theoretical and methodological approaches of the economics of food...

Author(s)
Lusk, J. L.; Roosen, J.; Shogren, J. F.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
The Oxford Handbook of the economics of food consumption and policy, 2011, pp xix + 901 pp.
Abstract

This chapter reviews the concept of food security and the various approaches that developing countries have used to promote food security in their countries. The chapter is organized as follows. After the introduction, the next section presents a simple microeconomic model of food security that...

Author(s)
Abdulai, A.; Kuhlgatz, C.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
The Oxford Handbook of the economics of food consumption and policy, 2011, pp 344-369
Abstract

This chapter reviews food security measurement and its connection to policy responses in developed countries. Because national food supply data and anthropometric indicators of undernutrition offer little variation in developed countries, the focus is on survey-based methods. Although the emphasis...

Author(s)
Wilde, P.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
The Oxford Handbook of the economics of food consumption and policy, 2011, pp 321-343
Abstract

Supply chains for many agricultural products have an hour-glass shape; in between a sizable number of farmers and consumers is a smaller number of processors. The concentrated nature of the meat processing sectors in the United States implies that disruption of the processing capacity of any one...

Author(s)
Ma MeiLin; Lusk, J. L.
Publisher
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA
Citation
Working Paper Series - National Bureau of Economic Research (Massachusetts), 2021, w29103, pp unpaginated
Abstract

The food consumer plays an increasingly prominent role in shaping the food and farming system. A better understanding of how public policies affect consumer choice and how those choices impact health, environment, and food security outcomes is needed. This paper addresses several key challenges we...

Author(s)
Lusk, J. L.; McCluskey, J.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2018, 40, 1, pp 5-21
Abstract

Debate about the economic impacts of sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes have largely focused on pecuniary effects, but evidence has emerged that taxes could also convey information about what consumers "should" be doing. Disentangling the pecuniary and non-pecuniary (or non-price) effects using...

Author(s)
Ahn SunJin; Lusk, J. L.
Publisher
Wiley, Oxford, UK
Citation
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020, 103, 1, pp 53-69
Abstract

Despite rising interest in and sales of innovative non-animal-based protein sources, there remains a lack of information about consumer demand for these new foods and their ultimate market potential. This study reports the results of a nationwide survey of more than 1800 U.S. consumers who...

Author(s)
Loo, E. J. van; Caputo, V.; Lusk, J. L.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2020, 95,
Abstract

The impact of providing food assistance in kind (via food, stamps, or restricted debit cards) vs. cash has long been a subject of debate. Prior efforts to causally identify the effects of the two types of transfers have been hindered by concerns over non-random selection into assistance programs,...

Author(s)
Lusk, J. L.; Weaver, A.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2017, 68, pp 186-192
Abstract

This paper explores heterogeneity in consumer preferences for foods and policies that relate to different innovative plant breeding technologies. As a starting point in our analysis, we report results from almost four years of monthly surveys with U.S. consumers, which show slight food safety...

Author(s)
Lusk, J. L.; McFadden, B. R.; Wilson, N.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2018, 78, pp 81-90
Abstract

The class of models defined as equilibrium displacement models (EDMs) is technically a set of comparative static results expressed in elasticity form. One major advantage of such models is that they allow the researcher to focus on the important partial elasticities, quantity, and expenditure...

Author(s)
Wohlgenant, M. K.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
Citation
The Oxford Handbook of the economics of food consumption and policy, 2011, pp 292-318

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