Abstract: On December 2010, the government of Iran ended the decades-long subsidy program for bread and energy products and launched the Targeted Subsidy Reform program that considerably raised prices of food products. The objective of the study was to measure welfare impacts of food price changes on Iranian urban households between two survey data of 2009/10 and 2011/12 which were taken from I...

Food security is a global challenge embedding complexities including social, economic and environmental fronts. Food security has to be achieved on the quantitative and qualitative level reflected by food availability, food access, food use and their stability. As a result, food security is overlapped to agricultural systems including food production, processing, distribution, retails, delivery...

INTRODUCTION Prices are a standard and important component of market and food security analysis because they serve as an indicator of both food availability and food access. Prices are a measure of availability because they tend to rise as the supply of food falls in relation to demand (e.g., poor production, constrained imports of food), and they tend to fall when supply expands in relation to...

Following widespread food riots in 2008, many people argued that high food prices cause political instability and civil unrest in the form of food riots. However, subsequent research has demonstrated that political, cultural, and economic factors confound the impact of price in determining whether a food riot occurs. This paper contributes to this growing body of literature by exploring: (1) th...

IMPORTANCE Fiscal food policies (eg, taxation) are increasingly proposed to improve population-level health, but their impact on health disparities is unknown. OBJECTIVE To estimate subgroup-specific effects of fast food price changes on fast food consumption and cardiometabolic outcomes. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Twenty-year follow-up (5 examinations) in a biracial US prospective c...

We study how a major retailer passes wholesale price changes onto its regular retail prices using an unusually detailed dataset that allows us to study discrete price change events. The data reveals that the pass-through decision has two components: the firm decides whether to change its regular retail prices, and then conditional on this decision, it selects the magnitude of the price change. ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether healthy foods in Saudi Arabia cost more compared with less healthy options. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during June and July 2015. The study targeted well-known market chains in the city of Riyadh. The selection of food items was purposive to include healthy and less healthy food items in each category. Price, calo...

the current study assessed the climate change impacts on land productivity of major food and non-food grain crops in india. we compiled panel data for 30 years (1980-2009) using fifteen crops across thirteen agriculture intensive states. the value of production for each crop is estimated by farm harvest price (at constant prices, 1993-1994). aggregate value of production on per hectare land is ...