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Foreign Direct Investment in Agriculture : Land Grab or Food Security Improvement?
Häberli, Christian - 2016
Is there something really new about "land grab" except its extent? What is wrong with an investment contract allowing the holder to buy a farm and to export wheat to Saudi Arabia, or soybeans and maize as cattle feed to Korea, or to plant and process sugar cane and palm oil into ethanol for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005368
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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009
The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in historical context, examines its key provisions, and argues that the Agreement systematically favors industrialized country agricultural producers at the expense of farmers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050425
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050535
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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis
Narula, Smita - 2015
The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186570
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Investigating the impact of trade disruptions on price transmission in commodity markets : an application of threshold cointegration
Mann, Janelle; Brewin, Derek - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 9, pp. 1-7
Threshold cointegration is introduced as an econometric technique to model the impact of trade disruptions on spatial price transmission in commodity markets so that market participants and policy makers can understand the global impact of trade disruptions on prices. The threshold cointegration...
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Faraway, so close: the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war on political violence in Asian countries
Di Maio, Michele; Justino, Patricia; Sciabolazza, … - 2024
We show that the Russia-Ukraine-war-induced changes in the international price of wheat affected political violence in Asia. Using data from 13 countries and more than four million cell-level observations, we show that a higher wheat price increases political violence in areas that are more...
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What drives the commodity-sovereign-risk-dependence in emerging market economies?
Böhm, Hannes; Eichler, Stefan; Gießler, Stefan - 2019
Using daily data for 34 emerging markets in the period 1994-2016, we find robust evidence that higher export commodity prices are associated with higher sovereign bond returns (indicating lower sovereign risk). The economic effect is especially pronounced for heavy commodity exporters. Examining...
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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies Between Global Conventions Through Land Use Changes : Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degrada...
Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - 2015
This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707873
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What Drives Deforestation and What Stops it? A Meta-Analysis of Spatially Explicit Econometric Studies
Ferretti-Gallon, Kalifi; Busch, Jonah - 2014
We have constructed a comprehensive database of 117 spatially explicit econometric studies of deforestation published … in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1996-2013. We present a meta-analysis of what drives deforestation and what stops … deforestation. Population is consistently associated with greater deforestation, and poverty is consistently associated with lower …
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Capital as an Anchor of Economic Activity : Evidence from the 1975 Frost
Barsanetti, Bruno - 2020
Does physical capital anchor the spatial distribution of economic activity? If so, how does capital destruction affect local economic activity in the short and the long term? I investigate these questions by examining the 1975 frost that damaged coffee trees in the Brazilian state of Paraná. I...
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