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Agro-processing and horticultural exports from Africa

Fukase, Emiko; Martin, Will - 2016

Sub-Saharan African exports of horticultural and processed agricultural products are growing in line with the major shift towards these products in world markets. Continued growth in these exports may be vitally important for expanding returns from African agriculture and for increasing its...

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Scenarios of business development in the agricultural machinery market under conditions of international trade integration

Litvinova, Tatiana N.; Khmeleva, Galina A.; Ermolina, … - In: Contemporary Economics 10 (2016) 4, pp. 323-332

The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze scenarios of business development in the agricultural machinery market under conditions of international trade integration using the case of present-day Russia and to determine the need for state support for domestic production. As a...

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Export Tariffs Combined with Public Investments as a Forest Conservation Policy Instrument

Schwerhoff, Gregor; Wehkamp, Johanna - 2017

The forest conservation policy instrument REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is designed to compensate governments of tropical countries for their efforts to conserve forests. Food insecure countries that are specialized in agriculture and have weak...

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The Southern African poultry value chain: Regional development versus national imperatives

Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2017

This paper highlights the key strategies, both regional and domestic, that have led to the current structure of the poultry value chain in Southern Africa. While large firm strategies in poultry have been found to be regional in nature, and important regional developments in soybean production,...

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Exploring the trade-urbanization nexus in developing economies: Evidence and implications

Zhang, Yuan; Wan, Guanghua - 2017

Developing countries have seen a rapid rise in population urbanization in the past decades. At the same time, they have participated actively in the process of globalization. However, possible interlinks between population urbanization and trade openness in developing economies have been ignored...

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Labels, food safety, and international trade

Wilson, Norbert L. W. - 2017

. The upshot of this chapter is that trade can enhance economic growth and development. Standards such as labels and food …, future analysis must provide careful assessments of industries, proposed standards, multiple outcomes, and power … relationships to identify the effects of standards on trade and development. …

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Agricultural trade and food security

Martin, Will - 2017

Agricultural trade is vitally important for achieving the goal of ending hunger by 2030 enshrined in the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). While trade is frequently seen as posing threats to this vitally important goal, it can in fact play a major role in achieving it. Trade helps in a...

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Agricultural trade and structural change: The case of Paraguay

Blanco, Cesar - 2017

We study the effect of agricultural trade on structural change. For this purpose, we calibrate a three-sector general equilibrium model to quantify the role of trade in explaining the structural change pattern of Paraguay. This country experienced a significant rise in net agricultural exports...

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What drives food price volatility? Evidence based on a generalized VAR approach applied to the food, financial and energy markets

Śmiech, Sławomir; Papież, Monika; Fijorek, Kamil; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 13 (2019) 2019-14, pp. 1-32

The aim of this study is to investigate sources of food prices volatility. The analysis uses daily series for volatility of corn, soybean, wheat, rice, US dollar, crude oil, and SP500 futures spanning the period January 4, 2000 to April 1, 2017. The authors employ the generalized vector...

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The role of standards in North-South trade: The case of agricultural exports from Sub-Saharan African countries to the EU

Fricke, Susanne; Chapman, Geoffrey - 2017

The impact of product and production standards on trade flows is of critical relevance for developing countries aiming … at a higher participation in world trade. While economic theory suggests that the effect of standards on trade can entail …, empirical evidence on the trade effect of standards remains ambiguous. We contribute to the literature by scrutinizing a set of …

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