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Trade Dimensions of Food Security
Brooks, Jonathan; Matthews, Alan - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2015
This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a … country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276759
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Trade Dimensions of Food Security
Brooks, Jonathan - 2015
This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a … country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012447287
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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world … on average in stabilizing domestic prices while increasing the volatility of the income transfers from terms-of-trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207521
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Why Governments Tax or Subsidize Trade: Evidence From Agriculture
Gawande, Kishore; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper empirically explores the political-economic determinants of why governments choose to tax or subsidize trade … in agriculture. We use a new data set on nominal rates of assistance (NRA) across a number of commodities spanning the … quantitative and price-based instruments used to regulate agriculture The data set admits consideration of effective taxes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530343
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Russia's food security and climate change : looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - 2013
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194902
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Emerging opportunities in the West African food economy
Allen, Thomas; Heinrigs, Philipp - 2016
Driven by urbanisation and income growth, the West African food economy has radically changed over the past 60 years. The food economy, including all activities involved in producing food, from production to processing, transport and distribution totalled USD 178 billion in 2010, equal to 36% of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627590
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West African food systems and changing consumer demands
Staatz, John M.; Hollinger, Frank - 2016
Fueled by a burgeoning population, urbanisation and income growth, West African food demand is rapidly transforming, with striking increases in total quantities demanded, growing preference for convenience, diversification of diets towards more perishable products, and an increased concern for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011627600
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Bio-economy and the sustainability of the agriculture and food system : opportunities and policy challenges
Diakosavvas, Dimitris; Frezal, Clara - 2019
The bio-economy is gaining increasing prominence in the policy debate, with several countries developing bio-economy strategies to decouple economic growth from dependence on fossil fuel, as well a pathway to supporting some of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and commitments under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112376
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Agriculture, food and jobs in West Africa
Allen, Thomas; Heinrigs, Philipp; Heo, Inhoi - 2018
food economy jobs are in agriculture, off-farm employment in food-related manufacturing and service activities is … segments of activities: agriculture, processing, marketing and food-away-from home. It also examines some of the emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853761
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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013), pp. 1-66
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954756