We analyze the quinoa sector situation and prospects in Bolivia, based on both secondary and primary information sources (i.e. surveys of producers and interviews to key actors). The quinoa sector has sustainability problems in production, market shares and price volatility. However, this grain...

Quinoa has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent decades, consolidating its position as a fundamental pillar for Andean farming communities and emerging as a prominent player in the global superfood market. However, the prices of this grain have shown complex dynamics, with large...

Understanding the determinants of price volatility is a key step to prevent potential negative consequences of to the uncertainty faced by farmers. Our critical provides a novel categorization of grain price volatility drivers. We distinguish endogenous and exogenous causes and conclude on the...

Commodity prices have been growing fast in the last few years and this has caused countless economic changes worldwide. This paper looks for a place in this topic offering a smooth transition vector autoregressive model whose motivation is rooted in the heterogeneous agent based models...

Price controls are measures that can significantly affect the sectors subject to such policies. Using a dynamic general stochastic equilibrium model with two types of agents: farmers and city dwellers, calibrated to Bolivia, it is shown that with falling productivity in the agricultural sector,...

This paper evaluates four dimensions of food security (ie availability, sovereignty, stability and consumption and biological utilization). Finding gaps for food groups: fruits and vegetables, proteins and carbohydrates, from comparing the supply of each product with minimum nutritional...

How did the wine world market perform in the last decades in terms of production, international trade, prices and consumption? What happened with Argentina's wine industry in the same period? To answer these questions, we categorize countries and analyze FAO statistics from 1961 on. We verify...

Mediante el análisis de cointegración y el modelo de vector de corrección de errores (VEC) se estimó el sistema de ecuaciones de oferta, demanda y precio del arroz blanco para Colombia, en el periodo comprendido entre 1970 - 2004. La demanda estimada muestra los signos esperados y es...

The Colombian agrarian sector suffered a significant transformation of its structure of production during the nineties. A whole range of crops and productive activities that were supported in previous decades by commercial protection policies and different types of subsidies collapsed, while...

Se presenta aquí la primera parte de esta investigación sobre los efectos de los cambios técnicos en la oferta de la fuerza de trabajo relacionada con cultivos muy tecnificados, de ciclo corto, como la papa y el cambur, en las inmediaciones del Lago de Valencia, en los linderos con el estado...