The aim of this paper is to assess the causal impact of trade policy distortions on food security. This is an hot issue … since restrictions to agricultural trade have been generally applied by national governments, especially in developing ….e., different dimensions of food security). The outcomes of our estimates show clearly that trade policy distortions are, overall …

The Long-term Agricultural Outlook model (LAO) is a long-run partial equilibrium trade model developed by the OECD as a … agricultural markets, as reported in the annual OECD-FAO Agriculture Outlook publication. LAO describes the drivers of structural …-term issues concerning agriculture, such as the links between food security and climate change. The model structure is similar to …

This study examined the contribution of gender with special emphasis on women farmers towards rural agriculture as well … individual farm productions were used as a measure of agriculture production. Comparisons were made between exclusively female … significantly (P>0.05) in agriculture production from those owned by males. Farms owned by women groups performed much better and …

groups based on similarities and differences across the various measures of food production, trade security and agricultural …