The image most people reach for when they think about food shortage is the one from the early pandemic: bare supermarket shelves, cleared produce sections, the specific social panic of seeing a staple ...

If there is one thing most people take for granted, it is food. U.S. supermarkets are always well stocked, and we don’t think much about how all that food gets there. When pushed to consider it, I ...

If you’ve topped up your tank at a petrol station recently, did it feel like you were “panic buying”? Or did it feel more like “I’d better buy some, just in case”? During the COVID pandemic, our ...