In the last years, there has been a growing interest in studying the global food system as a complex evolving network …. Much of the literature has been focusing on the way countries are interconnected in the food system through international …-trade linkages, and what consequences this may have in terms of food security and sustainability. Little attention has been instead …

Almost everywhere in the world, despite the lower agricultural commodity prices, consumer food prices have been … increasing in recent years. Notwithstanding a global recession and the largest grain harvest on record in 2008, food prices have … will rise by 70% and demand for meat will double. In the first ten months of 2009, food prices increased by 9.8%, prompting …

-based allocation of regulatory resources in food SCs, for management of food safety and adulteration risks. The paper leverages a … massive, self-constructed dataset of food safety tests conducted by China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) organizations … risks in China's food SCs, and contrasts them with the current test resource allocations of the CFDA. The analysis …