1. Overview : handbook on food demand, supply, sustainability and security / Raghbendra Jha, Raghav Gaiha and Anil Deolalikar -- 2. The political economy of food security : a behavioral perspective / C. Peter Timmer -- 3. Shocks to the system : monitoring food security in a volatile world /...

Professor Jha and Professor Gaiha address important issues of food security in their wide-ranging selection of the most influential published contributions in this area of study. Their comprehensive, original research review discusses each article and places it within the context of twelve...

The contribution of the present paper is threefold. First, we formally test whether the effect of calorie deprivation on wages is more significant/higher for the lower quantiles of workers. In the extant literature this is established through non-linear terms in the wage equation. A more...