Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,042
Cover Image
Staple food prices in Zambia
Chapoto, Antony; Govereh, Jones; Haggblade, Steven; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Prepared for the COMESA policy seminar on “Variation in staple food prices: Causes, consequence, and policy options”, Maputo, Mozambique, 25-26 January 2010 under the Comesa-MSU-IFPRI African Agricultural Marketing Project (AAMP)
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008456987
Cover Image
Spatial and Regional Dimensions of Food Security in Zambia
Haggblade, Steven; Longabaugh, Steven; Tschirley, David L. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2010
Zambia’s population clusters tightly in cities along the north-south line of rail and in the primarily rural areas of … Malawi. Zambia’s staple food production and sales likewise cluster spatially in three main areas: along the line of rail, in … the large commercial farming blocks of north-central Zambia, and to a lesser extent in Eastern Province (Figure 6). This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457122
Cover Image
Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?
Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - 2009
to study Zambia’s regional agricultural trade flows and the impact of the SADC Trade Protocol (SADC-TP). Zambia’s volume … of trade is significantly related to most of the standard gravity variables. The results indicate that Zambia has been … largely trading below potential, especially with respect to exports. There have been improvements in Zambia’s trade flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444855
Cover Image
Agricultural Trade Flows among Developing Countries: Do Regional Preferential Trade Agreements make a Difference?
Tembo, Gelson; Jayne, Thomas S. - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
to study Zambia’s regional agricultural trade flows and the impact of the SADC Trade Protocol (SADC-TP). Zambia’s volume … of trade is significantly related to most of the standard gravity variables. The results indicate that Zambia has been … largely trading below potential, especially with respect to exports. There have been improvements in Zambia’s trade flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913355
Cover Image
An Overview of the Canadian Agriculture and Agri-Food System
Agriculture Canada, Government of Canada - 2008
This 2008 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system. It is meant to be a multi-purpose reference document to provide: an introduction to the agriculture and agri-food system; a snapshot of structural changes that are occurring throughout the system in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005805103
Cover Image
Benefits and cost of compliance of compliance of sanitary regulations in livestock markets: the case of Rift valley Fever in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Nin Pratt, A.; Bonnet, P.; Jabbar, Mohammad A.; Ehui, S.; … - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246260
Cover Image
GLOBALIZATION, FOOD SAFETY AND AGRICULTURAL HEALTH STANDARDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TRADE AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Jabbar, Mohammad A. - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), … - 2008
The paper discusses the context of changing sanitary-phyto-sanitary (SPS) standards, concerns, questions and studies related to food standards and safety,strategic options for developing countries to deal with rising standards, results for case studies on compliance costs, benefits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011246266
Cover Image
Food Safety Concerns and other Factors Affecting Iran’s Pistachio Exports to EU, Australia, and Japan
Ashktorab, Niloofar; Saghaian, Sayed Hossein; … - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development 10 (2013) 2
In this paper, the impact of food safety concerns on Iran’s pistachio export demand was investigated. Panel data and panel cointegration analyses were used to estimate the export demand function of Iran’s pistachio nuts to the European Union (EU), Japan, and Australia for the period of 1997...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249612
Cover Image
Impact of GlobalGAP Certification on EU Banana Imports: A Gravity Modeling Approach
Masood, Amjad; Brümmer, Bernhard - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014
Adopting a gravity framework and using data from 2010 to 2012 for 74 countries, we investigate whether the intensity of GlobalGAP standard adoption has a positive impact on EU banana import values. Intensity is measured by using number of GlobalGAP certified producers and hectares harvested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155535
Cover Image
Determinants of Worldwide Diffusion of GlobalGAP Certification
Masood, Amjad; Brümmer, Bernhard - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2014
GlobalGAP is an important private standard in food sector. However, geographic diffusion of GlobalGAP is uneven across the world. We use a panel from 2008 to 2012 for 170 FAO member countries to analyze GlobalGAP diffusion in the agricultural sector as a whole as well as in the crops subsector....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011155537