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The UK has a growing food black market – and it’s making the cost of living crisisworse
Kamran Mahroof, University of Bradford and Sankar Sivarajah, University of Bradford
Rising food costs mean more people are turning to the black market to feed themselves –but this has consequences for business and consumers.
Australia’s restrictive vaping and tobacco policies are fuelling a lucrative and dangerous blackmarket
James Martin, Deakin University and David Bright, Deakin University
Black markets tend to attract established organised crime groups, which have the capacity to use violence to enforce contracts, collect debts and threaten competitors.
Nigeria: botched economic reforms plunge the country intocrisis
Chisom Ubabukoh, O.P. Jindal Global University and Kunal Sen, United Nations University
Africa’s largest economy is in crisis, and unrest is growing.
Paraguay’s Ciudad del Este: Efforts to force a busy informal commercial hub to follow global trade rules have only made life harder for those eking out aliving
Jennifer L. Tucker, University of New Mexico
A smuggling crackdown has threatened the livelihoods of the people who are just scraping by in this South American arbitrage economy.
UK urged to get ready for disaster with new national crises plan – but our research reveals the dark side ofprepping
Ben Kerrane, Manchester Metropolitan University; David Rowe, University of York; Katy Kerrane, University of Liverpool, and Shona Bettany, University of Huddersfield
Prepping is fast becoming mainstream, but new government advice fails to address inequality, and could cause division between the haves and have-nots.
Human organs for transplant: 5 steps Africa must take to improve the supplychain
Temidayo Akenroye, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Adegboyega Oyedijo, University of Leicester; George Zsidisin, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Jamal El Baz, Ibn Zohr University, and Marcia Mkansi, University of South Africa
Demand for human organs has surpassed supply. This is leading to serious problems including a flourishing black market for organ trafficking.
Darknet markets generate millions in revenue selling stolen personal data, supply chain studyfinds
Christian Jordan Howell, University of South Florida and David Maimon, Georgia State University
The hacker who steals your data is just one part of an illicit supply chain featuring producers, wholesalers, distributors and consumers – a black-market industry worth millions of dollars.
Why a 110-million-year-old raptor skeleton should never have been sold at auction for overUS$12M
Jessica M. Theodor, University of Calgary and Margaret E. Lewis, Stockton University
The sale of fossils at auction houses reflects a problematic trend of privileging profit over knowledge and education.
Rhino horn consumers reveal why a legal trade alone won’t saverhinos
Vu Hoai Nam Dang, University of Copenhagen and Martin Reinhardt Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Rhino horn consumers have a strong preference for wild rhino horn.
How vulnerable is your personal information? 4 essentialreads
Eric Smalley, The Conversation
Data breaches have become a fact of life. Here are articles from The Conversation that detail the threat, why it happens and what you can do to protect yourself.
Here’s how much your personal information is worth to cybercriminals – and what they do withit
Ravi Sen, Texas A&M University
A thriving black market for stolen personal data makes millions of people vulnerable to spies, spammers, scammers and hackers.
The darknet – a wild west for fake coronavirus ‘cures’? The reality is more complicated (andregulated)
James Martin, Swinburne University of Technology
These online spaces are more regulated than many media reports would have you believe. And the vast majority of dark web traders are steering clear of exploiting the pandemic.
Dark web, not dark alley: why drug sellers see the internet as a lucrative safehaven
James Martin, Swinburne University of Technology and Monica Barratt, RMIT University
The illicit drug trade is thriving on the dark web because it’s seen as safer and more profitable than street dealing, according to encrypted interviews with people who sell drugs online.
Urban unrest propels global wave ofprotests
Henry F. (Chip) Carey, Georgia State University
From Santiago and La Paz to Beirut and Jakarta, many of the cities now gripped by protest share a common problem: They’ve grown too much, too fast.
Economics of legalising cannabis –pricing and policing arecrucial
Alice Mesnard, City, University of London
To fight the black market, the price of legal cannabis has to be relatively low. But if nothing else is done, the black market will persist.
4 questions answered on sex trafficking in theUS
Monti Datta, University of Richmond
While there’s still a great deal that is unknown about sex trafficking, research studies and nonprofits have been able to gather telling data on this industry’s victims and perpetrators.
Sex trafficking in the US: 4 questionsanswered
Monti Datta, University of Richmond
New England Patriots CEO Robert Kraft’s criminal charges in a suspected sex trafficking case draw new attention to this illicit underground economy.
From jaguar teeth to the nail of the great beast: the evolution of animalmedicines
Irina Podgorny, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Stories of substitution and surrogates are all too common in the wildlife trade, especially when it comes to medicines derived from animal parts.
Legal cannabis vs. black market: Can itcompete?
Michael J. Armstrong, Brock University
In Canada’s newly-legal cannabis market, retailers will face tough competition from the established black market.
Are we really ready for privatized potsales?
David Soberman, University of Toronto
As marijuana legalization looms and we we contemplate the future of cannabis sales in Canada, there are still lots of questions for both the public and government to consider.
