China’s hog market faces the challenge of several external shocks, which arise from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, African Swine Fever (ASF) and related global trade uncertainties. This article develops a shocks, cycles and adjustments (SCA) model to evaluate the dynamic impact of different...

The economic effects of climate change on agriculture have been widely assessed in the last two decades. Many of these assessments are based on the integration of biophysical and agro-economic models, allowing to understand the physical and socio-economic responses of the agricultural sector to...

"This report assesses the impact of IFPRI's work on the agriculture negotiations in the WTO's Doha Round. It is set against the context of IFPRI's mission which emphasizes food security and the interests of poor people in low-income countries and underlines the importance of active engagement in...

We estimate the impact of the removal of a railway transportation subsidy on the local economies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, exploiting the large regional variation in these one-time freight rate increases. We find that higher freight rates - and hence lower farm gate prices -...

This study investigates the relationship between social protection policies and agricultural output in Nigeria using data from Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Survey on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) conducted in August-October 2012 and February-April 2013 for post planting interview and...

After identifying organic agriculture hotspots using spatial statistics, we estimate a treatment effects model that classifies a county's membership in an organic hotspot as an endogenous treatment variable. We find that organic hotspot membership leads to a lower county-level poverty rate and a...

The paper presents the impact of the coupled support on tomatoes and cucumbers cultivated in filed in Romania. In this study a detailed analysis is made regarding the coupled support received in the period 2015-2018 for the following products: field cucumbers and tomatoes for processing The main...

Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The CEPA will eliminate tariff on goods that account for 94% of their two way trade over ten years and will boost bilateral trade and investment. Indian exports which were subject...

The global COVID-19 pandemic leads to the fatal economic condition of Asian countries and brings miserable situations to the rural farmers. According to Awad and Konn (2020), this pandemic greatly hits the developing countries and creates an economic slowdown in industry and agricultural...