Publications

Submission to the UK Environmental Audit Committee’s Inquiry on Environmental Change and Food Security

Working paper by on 6 Mar 2023

This report consists of written evidence to the UK Parliament Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry on environmental change and food security. It states that UK’s Food Strategy of 2022 does not sufficiently factor climate risks into building resilient domestic food supply chains and suggests measures that the Government could take to increase food security while providing climate mitigation and health co-benefits.

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Stress-testing development pathways under a changing climate: water-energy-food security in the lake Malawi-Shire river system

Research article by Ajay Gajanan Bhave, Declan Conway, Suraje Dessai, David Mkwambisi, Andrew Dougill on 28 Feb 2022

Malawi depends on Lake Malawi outflows into the Shire River for its water, energy and food (WEF) security. The authors of this paper explore future WEF security risks under the combined impacts of climate change and ambitious development pathways for water use expansion.

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Impact of COVID-19 on food insecurity using multiple waves of high frequency household surveys

Research article by Shouro Dasgupta, Elizabeth Robinson on 3 Feb 2022

This is the first paper to track food insecurity and its determinants during the pandemic using multi-country and multi-wave evidence.

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Improving food policies for a climate insecure world: evidence from Ethiopia

Research article by Elizabeth Robinson on 31 Dec 2021

This paper provides micro-founded evidence needed to design policies that both improve agricultural yields in the context of a changing climate and target households’ abilities to cope with shocks that put upwards pressure on food prices.

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Can subjective resilience indicators predict future food security? Evidence from three communities in rural Kyrgyzstan

Working paper by Abbie Clare, Lira Sagynbekova, Chris Bene, Akyl Rahmanberdi on 19 Nov 2018

This paper is the first to quantitatively compare the power of subjective and objective resilience measures to predict future wellbeing in the face of socio-environmental shocks and stressors. It uses data from rural Kyrgyzstan. read more »

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Economic growth and agricultural land conversion under uncertain productivity improvements in agriculture

Working paper by Bruno Lanz, Simon Dietz, Tim Swanson on 3 Jun 2016

We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth, and the associated demand for food. We use a two-sector Schumpeterian model of growth, … read more »

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Crop diversification and child health: Empirical evidence from Tanzania

Working paper by Stefania Lovo, Marcella Veronesi on 15 Oct 2015

Malnutrition is recognized as a major issue among low-income households in developing countries with long-term implications for economic development. Recently, crop diversification has been recognized as a strategy to improve … read more »

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Running with the red queen: an integrated assessment of agricultural land expansion and global biodiversity decline

Working paper by Simon Dietz, Bruno Lanz, Tim Swanson on 15 Sep 2014

Modern agriculture relies on a small number of highly productive crops and the continued expansion of agricultural land area has led to a significant loss of biodiversity. In this paper … read more »

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Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth theoretic perspective

Working paper by Simon Dietz, Bruno Lanz, Tim Swanson on 29 Jul 2014

Global population growth, technology, and Malthusian constraints: a quantitative growth theoretic perspective read more »

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