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Biophysical and Economic Uncertainty in the Analysis of Poverty Impacts of Climate Change

Hertel, Thomas; Lobell, David; Verma, Monika - 2011

This paper seeks to understand the main sources of uncertainty in assessing the impacts of climate change on agricultural output, international trade, and poverty. We incorporate biophysical uncertainty by sampling from a distribution of productivity shocks reflecting the impacts of climate on...

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Market and Welfare Effects of Trade Disruptions from Unapproved Biotech Crops

Magnier, Alexandre; Konduru, Srinivasa; … - 2009

Genetically modified (GM) crops have been largely adopted in major exporting countriesthereby representing a dominant share of a few key agricultural commodities that aretraded in international markets. Regulatory reviews and approvals for the cultivation andmarketing of GM crops, however, are...

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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?

Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008

Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...

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MEXICAN-U.S. FRESH TOMATO TRADE: AN ANALYSIS OF VOLUME, PRICES AND TRANSACTION COSTS

Padilla-Bernal, Luz E.; Thilmany, Dawn - 2000

Tomato trade between the U.S. and Mexico has grown significantly during the past decade. Although the tariff reductions accorded under NAFTA may explain part of his increase, there are other supply and demand factors that affect trade flows. This study develops a U.S.-Mexico tomato trade model,...

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Commercialization of Herbicide-Tolerant Soybeans in China: Perverse Domestic and International Trade Effects

Hansen, James M.; Lin, William W.; Tuan, Francis; … - 2007

Replaced with revised version of paper 06/12/07.

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Evidence on trends in the single factoral terms of trade in African agricultural commodity production

Fleming, Euan M.; Fleming, Pauline - 2007

The ability of African countries to achieve sustained improvements in agricultural incomes depends on their ability to generate total factor productivity (TFP) change in their agricultural sectors and adjust to movements in agricultural output and input prices. The single factoral terms of trade...

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International and Internal Market Integration in Indian agriculture: A study of the Indian Rice Market

Jayasuriya, Sisira; Kim, Jae H.; Kumar, Parmod - 2007

There has been concern about the effectiveness of India's agricultural policy reforms adopted in recent years as part of the overall policy liberalisation process. These concerns have been strengthened by studies of spatial market integration of major agricultural commodity markets, such as the...

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ASYMMETRIC PRICE TRANSMISSION IN THE ISRAELI CITRUS EXPORT SECTOR IN THE AFTERMATH OF LIBERALIZATION

Goetz, Linde; von Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan - 2007

The Israeli citrus export sector was liberalized in 1991 with the aim to increase citrus growers income and to improve … overall efficiency of the international citrus marketing channel. However, the former government export monopolys activities …

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PHILIPPINE COCONUT INDUSTRY AND THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Oniki, Shunji - 1992

This study explores effects of Philippines' coconut policies on the performance in the international market. Analysis of the coconut sector found that the Philippine government successfully changed the structure of the coconut industry during the 1970's using a fund collected as coconut levies....

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FACTORS AFFECTING THE IMPORT OF WHEAT IN SAUDI ARABIA

Al-Goosi, Adbullah I. - 1980

depends more on foreign trade then most other countries in the world, it has to export almost all of the oil it produces - oil … bing the country's only export commodity. Thus, Saudi Arabia is almost entirely dependent on the international market … increase in oil export and population. The objectives of this paper are to: 1) To estimate the demand equation for imported …

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