This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...

Trade, agricultural production and the corresponding environmental outcomes are interdependent. First, we illustrate this interdependence analytically and show that the direction of the relationship between trade and environmental outcomes is theoretically ambiguous. Next, we empirically examine...

In this work, the behavior of the agricultural imports appears before and agroindustrial Colombians and alter the economic opening of end of the ninety. One is that diminution of great part of the tariff and for-tariff mechanism of protection, combined with the revaluation and the diminution of...

We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general equilibrium model that incorporates choices of crops and technologies in agricultural production at the micro-level of fields covering the surface of the earth. We estimate our...

We study the effects of globalization on agricultural productivity across countries. We develop a multi-country general equilibrium model that incorporates choices of crops and technologies in agricultural production at the micro-level of fields covering the surface of the earth. We estimate our...