Hannah Pieters

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual framework for food and nutrition security at multiple levels of aggregation, including individual and household level, and make a distinction between drivers that affect the food status, and drivers which affect the stability of this status.

TL;DR: On average, democratisation reduced child mortality, and the effect increased over time, which is consistent with the interpretation that democratic reforms have the greatest effects when child mortality is a direct concern for a large part of the population.

TL;DR: This article developed a model to derive how much price distortion a government would introduce when it cares about stability in a situation with limited policy options, and identified the optimal combination of distortions and stability for given international price shocks and interest groups preferences for stability.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the tradeoff between price distortions and reduced volatility when governments intervened in agricultural and food markets during the recent food price spikes and showed that there is a trade-off and identified the optimal combination of distortions and stability for given international price shocks and interest groups preferences for stability.

TL;DR: The FoodSecure project as discussed by the authors investigates the different proposed definitions for the concept of food security, explores their legacy and relates concepts of food and nutrition security to other standard ones, and discusses the integration of it in international law and policies as well as the implementation in domestic policies.