Over the past four decades, China has made fruitful achievements in agricultural development, which attracted a great deal of attention within the academy. Meanwhile, Chinese agriculture has also undergone dramatic and continuing structural changes (Chen et al. 2009; Cao and Birchenall 2013),...

This paper explores the interactions between the risk of food insecurity and the decision to health insure in the Palestinian Territories. The risk of adverse health conditions is insurable; the risk of food insecurity is a background risk and no market insurance exists. The vulnerability to food...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has estimated that in 2010-2012, 868 million people were undernourished world-wide. At the sam time, FAO reported that approximately 1.3 billion tons of food were lost or wasted globally in 2007, which was equivalent to...