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 …

We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market …), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on another for food imports. Food trade maps are drawn by the application …

, addressing concerns about European agriculture's multifunctionality; and there is a renewed anxiety about food security. The CAP …

, price dynamics are driven by domestic productive shocks and international prices. Trade and/or storage policies are …, optimal combination of storage and trade policies results in a powerful stabilization of domestic food prices. Such a policy …

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 …

between the exchange rate and trade, the objective of this article is to evaluate the relationship between the exchange rate … the currencies of the countries and the terms of trade. This theoretical analysis suggests that a depreciation of the … investments, the level of customs duties, the terms of trade, the money supply and political stability. …

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 …