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What Explains the Intensification and Diversification of Brazil's Agricultural Production and Exports from 1990 to 2012?

Bacha, Carlos José C. - 2014

diversification of the Brazilian agricultural sector in the period 1990 2012. Our hypothesis is that Brazil does not have a …, and taking advantage of Brazil's agricultural land availability and good climate for agriculture.We identify four main … noteworthy results of the study:(1) Brazil is no longer an agricultural country, despite the fact that in 2012 agriculture …

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International Price Changes of Agricultural Commodities and Their Impacts on Income Distribution and Poverty in Brazil

Guilhoto, Joaquim - 2014

agricultural commodities will have on income distribution and poverty in Brazil. To do so, a Social Accounting Matrix is …

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Trains, trade and transaction costs : how does domestic trade by rail affect market prices of Malawi agricultural commodities?

Zant, Wouter - 2015

We measure the impact of low cost transport by rail in Malawi on the dispersion of agricultural commodities prices across markets, by exploiting the quasi experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic trade by rail in January 2003, due to the destruction of a railway bridge at...

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Competitive pressure and technology adoption : evidence from a policy reform in Western Canada

Ferguson, Shon; Olfert, Rose - 2013

We measure the impact of the removal of a railway transportation subsidy on the adoption of technology for Western Canadian farms, using a unique combination of Census and freight rate data. We exploit the large regional variation in these one-time freight rate increases in order to identify...

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Estimating the constraints to agricultural trade of developing countries

Moïsé, Evdokia; Delpeuch, Claire; Sorescu, Silvia; … - 2013

Agricultural trade is widely considered as an important contributor to developing countries‘ economic growth, poverty alleviation and food security. This report identifies and analyses some of the most important supply-side constraints to developing countries‘ exports of agricultural...

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How does market access for smallholders affect export supply? : the case of tobacco marketing in Malawi

Zant, Wouter - 2016

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We investigate smallholder tobacco cultivation in Malawi, Malawi's major export crop, and exploit the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor to measure the impact of a reduction in...

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Cuba : agricultural transition and food security in a global perspective

Riera, Olivia; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015

This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the transformations that have (not) taken place since 1990. We compare the Cuban transition with transitions in other "transition countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of...

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External shocks, internal shots: the geography of civil conflicts

Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu - 2012

This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events within a set of Sub-Saharan African countries to study the impact of external income shocks on the likelihood of violence. We consider a number of external demand shocks faced by the country or the regions...

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The local impacts of agricultural subsidies : evidence from the Canadian Prairies

Bollman, Ray D.; Ferguson, Shon - 2016

We estimate the impact of the removal of a railway transportation subsidy on the local economies of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, exploiting the large regional variation in these one-time freight rate increases. We find that higher freight rates - and hence lower farm gate prices -...

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Export response to sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade : firm-level evidence from a developing country

Ali, Salamat - 2016

This study empirically examines a connection between non-tariff measures (NTMs) and trade response at a micro level. It investigates the mechanism, drivers and speed of adjustment to a battery of sanitary and phytosanitary measures and technical barriers to trade. It uses an administrative...

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