“Climate Change, Market Dynamics, and Food Price Inflation in South Asia: Risks, Responses, and Resilience”

Call for Papers – Special Issue: “Climate Change, Market Dynamics, and Food Price Inflation in South Asia: Risks, Responses, and Resilience”

Journal: Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Submission deadline: 30 May 2026

This special issue investigates how climate change, market dynamics, and policy responses jointly shape food‑price inflation and food‑security outcomes in South Asia. It targets the intersection of agricultural economics, climate‑impact studies, development policy, and political‑economy, with a focus on India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and neighbouring economies where climate‑induced shocks and volatile food prices threaten livelihoods and social stability.

Why this issue matters

• Food‑price inflation is a persistent and politically sensitive issue in South Asia, directly affecting poverty, nutrition, and rural‑and‑urban welfare.

• Climate change increasingly disrupts agricultural cycles through unseasonal rain, heatwaves, floods, and droughts, generating supply‑side shocks that ripple through markets and households.

• At the same time, trade restrictions, supply‑chain bottlenecks, input‑price volatility, and political‑economy factors amplify inflationary pressures, especially in import‑dependent or thinly integrated food systems.

This SI seeks to build a systems‑level, interdisciplinary understanding of how these forces interact and what policy frameworks can stabilise prices, protect vulnerable groups, and strengthen resilience under mounting climate risks.

Key themes and research topics

Contributions may be empirical, conceptual, or policy‑oriented, drawing on agricultural economics, climate‑science, political‑economy, and development‑studies perspectives. Suggested areas include:

• Climate‑extreme events and supply‑shock transmission

  • How extreme heat, floods, and droughts affect crop yields and food‑supply chains, and how these shocks translate into price volatility.

• Storage, transport, and digital‑market interventions

  • Role of warehousing, logistics, and digital‑trading platforms (e‑mandis, e‑markets, price‑information systems) in dampening climate‑induced inflation.

• Climate‑responsive trade and regional‑price‑stabilisation

  • Assessment of climate‑sensitive trade‑policies, stock‑release mechanisms, and regional food‑banks in South Asia.

• Household‑level vulnerability and coping strategies

  • How smallholder farmers, landless labourers, women‑headed households, and urban poor respond to food‑price shocks (e.g., shifting diets, labour‑market adjustments, social‑protection usage).

• Political economy of food prices

  • Linkages between food‑price inflation, subsidy designs, farmer‑protest dynamics, and electoral‑outcomes in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other South‑Asian states.

The issue explicitly connects to SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production), and SDG 13 (Climate Action) by linking inflation, climate‑risk, and policy‑design to equitable access to food and sustainable agri‑value chains.

Guest editors

• Prof. Kirtti Ranjan Paltasingh, Department of Economics, Ravenshaw University, India

• Dr. Souryabrata Mohapatra, School of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India

• Dr. Nusrat Akber, World Vegetable Center – South and Central Asia, ICRISAT Campus, India

Submission details

• Submission platform: ScholarOne Manuscripts for JADEE:
  https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jadee

• When submitting, select the special issue title “Climate Change, Market Dynamics, and Food Price Inflation in South Asia: Risks, Responses, and Resilience”.

• Key deadlines:

  • Abstract submission: 15 August 2025

  • Submissions open: 1 September 2025

  • Full‑paper deadline: 30 May 2026

• Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere, and must follow the journal’s Author Guidelines.

This special issue is ideal for agricultural economists, climate‑impact researchers, development‑studies scholars, and policy analysts working on food‑security, climate‑adaptation, and inflation‑management in South Asia and similar emerging‑economy contexts.

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