pollination systems in many areas of agriculture are threatened by the inadequacy or lack of sustainable managed, indigenous, or … depends on the shape of the supply and demand functions, and the magnitude of these losses or gains is an empirical question … supply, security, and trade could be in the offing if current declines in pollinator abundance, diversity, and availability …

Proposals for agricultural trade reform put forward by the main protagonists remain far apart, with little sign of … Agriculture has proposed a compromise. The alternative proposals by the United States, the European Union and the WTO are analysed … with the Agricultural Trade Policy Simulation Model, a static, multi-commodity, multi-region, partial equilibrium trade …

How can we estimate the negative externalities of agriculture at the national level, and attribute these to specific … inputs are the German economic accounts for agriculture, farm structural survey and market statistics, as well as …

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the … on trade and to methods that provide some quantitative estimates of the impact of such barriers on market equilibrium …, trade flows, economic efficiency, and welfare. Given the heterogeneous nature of these regulations, a unifying methodology …

means of achieving food security. Restrictive trade policies, including specific tariffs on rice and sugar, and quantitative … pristine areas in an attempt to maintain self-sufficiency. On the other hand, more open trade may offer better options to … analyze the efficiency and distributional impacts of these agricultural trade policies. The results suggest that removing or …

marginal amenity benefit exceeds the marginal external cost reductions due to the input tax. Terms of trade effects imply that … of major players within the WTO agriculture-environment sphere. …

statistics on domestic production, trade, consumption, and storage of cereals reveals that the improvement in Russia’s net trade … trade costs after the devaluation of the Russian rouble in 1998 seem to have contributed to these developments. A computable … trade regime would also be positive for the domestic farm sector. …

Trade negotiators are concerned about the possible negative effects of trade liberalisation on employment in specific … sector adjust to trade shocks. In this application, a global computable general equilibrium model is used to determine trade … levels in Indonesian agriculture. Employment tends to move with output in the primary agricultural sector where capital …

This study examined Nile perch demand in the Netherlands and assessed the importance of country of origin as a … determining factor. Import demand equations were estimated using the absolute price version of the Rotterdam model where Nile …). The Armington framework (source-differentiation) is often used when estimating import demand for a similar product from …