Crowdsourcing Food Security: Introducing Food Choice Derivatives For Sustainability

<p dir="ltr">Humanitarian crises highlight the willingness of people to come to the aid of others. Yet few are capable<br>of impactful individual action. Intermediaries such as NGOs and charities may lack resources on a larger<br>scale, and governments may be slow or unable to intervene effectively. Moreover, the existing market in<br>commodities drives profit-taking with little empathy for human suffering. This work proposes a mechanism<br>to bring aggregated acts of consumer compassion and sustainability to commodities markets to mitigate food<br>security shocks.</p>