This paper analyzes the short-run trade effects of retaliatory tariffs against agriculture and food exports from the … United States. The results indicate that these tariffs caused a substantial decline in U.S. agriculture and food exports and …

This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and … the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …

Using novel data describing the healthfulness of household food purchases and the retail landscapes consumers face, we …

Many developing countries use food-price subsidies or price controls to improve the nutrition of the poor. However …

This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that … the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day …. Industrial countries account for a disproportionate share of world MSW relative to their share of world population, while …

sources of yield improvements have been mostly exhausted, generating concerns about the future of food prices. This paper … estimates the impact of global adoption of genetically engineered (GE) seeds on food supply by exploiting the spatial and … yield gains range from 65% for GE cotton to 12.4% for soybeans and appear to be higher in the developing world than in …

the state of food insecurity in the world can be assessed from the perspectives of the availability of and the access to …Many discussions following the 2007/08 food price crisis have revolved around the magnitude of the negative impacts … that it may have had on food security worldwide. Analysts have been asked to provide timely assessments, often based on …

Malthusian footrace between food availability and population. Sluggish growth in farm productivity in SSA has brought to the fore … the key role of agricultural technology in alleviating future food insecurity. We develop a model of technology, food … security and international trade with three distinct channels for technology reduce food insecurity in SSA. The first is via …

quantifies the external costs of global fuel subsidies using the latest available data and estimates from the World Bank and …