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South African Riots: Repercussion of the Global Food Crisis and US Drought
Yavni Bar-Yam, Marco Lagi, Yaneer Bar-Yam
High and volatile global food prices have led to food riots and played a critical role in triggering the Arab Spring revolutions in recent years. The severe drought in the US in th…
UPDATE July 2012 | The Food Crises: The US Drought
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Yaneer Bar-Yam
Recent droughts in the midwestern United States threaten to cause global catastrophe driven by a speculator amplified food price bubble. Here we show the effect of speculators on f…
UPDATE February 2012 - The Food Crises: Predictive validation of a quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand +1
Increases in global food prices have led to widespread hunger and social unrest---and an imperative to understand their causes. In a previous paper published in September 2011, we…
Modeling Policy and Agricultural Decisions in Afghanistan
Michael J. Widener, Yavni Bar-Yam, Andreas Gros +2
Afghanistan is responsible for the majority of the world's supply of poppy crops, which are often used to produce illegal narcotics like heroin. This paper presents an agent-based…
The Food Crises: A quantitative model of food prices including speculators and ethanol conversion
Marco Lagi, Yavni Bar-Yam, Karla Z. Bertrand +1
Recent increases in basic food prices are severely impacting vulnerable populations worldwide. Proposed causes such as shortages of grain due to adverse weather, increasing meat co…
Networks of Economic Market Interdependence and Systemic Risk
Dion Harmon, Blake Stacey, Yavni Bar-Yam +1
The dynamic network of relationships among corporations underlies cascading economic failures including the current economic crisis, and can be inferred from correlations in market…