This paper deals with the role of regional trade in fostering the resilience of domestic food markets. Using country … the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), and … pace of regional trade expansion and thus its contribution to creating more resilient domestic food markets through modest …

What is an APEC Food System? Leaders of APEC's 21 member governments are committed to achieving free and open trade and … progress has already been made towards those goals, but least so in the food sector. The latter needs to be addressed urgently … September 1998 that APEC leaders take joint action to develop a so-called APEC Food System to boost the food sector …

This paper explores the impact of the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) agreement on food security by using a gravity … affect the four dimensions of food security, availability, access, stability and utility. While coordination between SAFTA … members has provided some positive food security attainment, institutional uncertainty and conflicts have prevented the full …

We survey the latest research on the linkages between international trade, regional integration, poverty and food … security in developing economies and draw out its implications for East Africa and future research. While there is now an … and regional integration on food security is much more limited. This reflects inconsistencies in the definition and …

intensive growth of production of key agri-food products is estimated for two scenarios, taking into account the prospects of … of potential domestic consumption of agro-industrial products, including for food and other purposes. Export potential … estimates are based on the logic of the balance approach. In addition, the paper identifies potential markets for food products …

Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising … impacts on poverty. The report highlights the range of barriers to food trade in Africa along the entire value chain. The … global food prices, brings ever-mounting food import bills. In addition, population growth and changing demand patterns will …

EBA eligibility has induced significantly exports of fruits, nuts and vegetables from Africa to the EU-27. Estimating … different count models using border rejection data from the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed database, we also find other … trade enhancing effects of RTAs that go beyond tariff reductions, as all EU-Africa RTAs have negative effects on border …