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The paper discusses the decisions on the CAP in the context of the Berlin summit. In a rather broad perspective the agricultural sectoral and related objectives are analyzed for their consistency and compatability with higher ranking societal objectives. The policies' allocational and...
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Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. It contains fourteen parts: introduction with the …, infrastructure and businesses; assessments of impacts on food industries; analysis of radioactive contamination of agri-food products …; evaluation of the effects on markets, consumers and international trade; analysis of effects on food regulation and inspection …
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. This paper assesses preparedness for and agri-food impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, identifies challenges in post … while agri-food sector and consumption have been among the worst hit areas. The triple disaster was a rare but a high impact … for effective public resource allocation and reduction of agents’ costs. Different elements of agri-food chain have …
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The March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident have had immense impacts on Japanese agri-food sector … agriculture, food industries and consumers as well as factors for persistence of negative impacts, and longer-term impacts on … Fukushima nuclear disaster on the Japanese agriculture and food sector. Nearly four years after the triple disaster, it gives …
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Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted food security. In particular, the closure of international borders … disrupted the food supply chain. Our paper examines the interaction between COVID-19, agri-food trade, and food inflation using … pandemic resulted in a significant increase in food inflation in the South Asian countries. However, through the resilience of …
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A spatial price equilibrium model with a large coverage of countries, policies and regional trade arrangements is applied to simulate preferential sugar imports of the European Union (EU) in 2015/16 under different assumptions with respect to the expansion of the sugar sectors of various least...
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Extreme weather events can disrupt agricultural markets, but agricultural trade can help address subsequent food … between trade and food security in an environment where extreme weather events create uncertainty. The analysis suggests that … trade integration makes countries less vulnerable to negative yield shocks by mitigating the risk of extreme food prices and …
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yields on surrounding cropland. I use national USDA data from the past three decades to build a county-level panel. I employ … a regression model with two-way fixed effects to quantify how easement land share impacts yields, risk, as well as acres … planted, failed, and prevented planted. A 100% increase in land share of wetland easements increases yields by 0.34%, 0 …
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The objective of this paper is to understand the mechanisms by which development projects facilitate market linkage of smallholder farmers based on panel data from Nicaragua. We find that activities related to entrepreneurial practices have positive and statistically significant effect on...
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