The agricultural and food sector is an ideal case for investigating the political economy of public policies. Many of …

highly disaggregated import data to the EU in the food industry. Results show that, on average, the diffusion of EU voluntary …

is induced by market size. In this paper, these predictions are tested across 25 European countries and 9 food industries … products coming from developed (especially EU-15) countries, suggesting that EU food imports are closer substitutes for …

reciprocity in food trade among the US, Canada, the EU and Japan. We explore country and industry-specific market access asymmetry … reciprocal trade openness; indeed, access to the food markets of the US and Japan appears significantly easier than reciprocal …

During the past decades the global food system changed dramatically with increased trade in high-value food products …, increased exports from developing countries, increased consolidation and dominance of large multinational food companies, and … increased proliferation of public and private food standards. As a consequence, global food trade is increasingly organised …

The paper analyses the impact of agricultural technologies on the four pillars of food security for maize farmers in … estimate the causal effects of using improved seeds and inorganic fertilizers on food availability, access, utilization, and … stability. Overall, the technologies have a positive and significant impact on food security, but substantial differences …

This paper investigates the impact of food safety standards promulgated by governments or imposed by byers from the … food products. I offer an analysis that disentangles productivity-sorting from quality-sorting in fresh fruits and …