The media narratives with respect to EU external policies and their effects on developing countries generally paint a picture of unequal power dynamics and negative externalities, particularly with respect to international trade and land grabbing. In this paper, I use trade data to argue that...

This discussion paper presents an estimation of the required agricultural land for the EU15 trade of agricultural goods (including erosion). We are particularly interested in the land requirements of the EU15 imports of agricultural goods in differentiating between regions and diverse income and...