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Productivity shocks, international trade and import prices : evidence from agriculture

Ferguson, Shon; Gars, Johan - 2016

The purpose of this study is to measure the sensitivity of trade volumes and unit values to agricultural productivity shocks at home and abroad. We find that the unit values of trade ows vary systematically with production shocks using both aggregate data on a large sample of countries and...

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The Legal and Economic Implications of Economic Partnership Agreements in Kenya's Trade Arena : Assessing Liberalization of Agriculture and Food Security

Juma, Jill - 2010

benefit sharing (ABS) and protection of traditional knowledge in agriculture. The place of the UPOV is of utmost significance … in Kenya's Agriculture sector because Kenya is a signatory of the 1978 UPOV Act whereas there is in place the 1991 UPOV … Act (the basis of EPA negotiations on Agriculture) which has broader objectives and features, with respect to plant …

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WTO and Policy Space for Agriculture and Food Security : Issues for China and India

Sharma, Sachin Kumar - 2020

The US has challenged the product-specific support to foodgrains by China in the WTO claiming that China has breached its commitments under WTO by providing more than US$100 billion as product specific support to wheat, rice and corn in 2015. The main issue is the price support backed...

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Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality : Evidence from the Global Climate

Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019

This paper shows that greater global spatial correlation of productivities can increase cross-country welfare dispersion by increasing the correlation between a country's productivity and its gains from trade. We causally validate this general-equilibrium prediction using a global climatic...

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Global assessment of the carbon leakage implications of carbon taxes on agricultural emissions

Henderson, Ben - 2021

from agriculture, even when it is applied in a small group of countries, provided that producers facing the tax can make …

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The Effects of Natural Disasters and Weather Variations on International Trade and Financial Flows: a Review of the Empirical Literature

Osberghaus, Daniel - In: Economics of Disasters and Climate Change 3 (2019), pp. 305-325

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade and financial flows. Regarding the effects on trade, I summarize 21 studies of 18 independent research teams and show that there is a large diversity in terms of...

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The effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade: A review of the empirical literature

Osberghaus, Daniel - 2019

This review summarizes the empirical literature on the effects of natural disasters and weather variations on international trade flows. A first result is that the body of literature is actually not as small as previously suggested. In total, I summarize 19 studies of 18 independent research...

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Climate change impacts on global agriculture

Calzadilla, Alvaro; Rehdanz, Katrin; Betts, Richard A.; … - 2010

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Evaluating the OECD-FAO and USDA agricultural baseline projections

Fang, Xiaoyi; Katchova, Ani L. - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 3 (2023) 2, pp. 1-29

Organization (FAO), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) produce long-term agricultural projections for key indicators of …

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Policy strategies and challenges for climate change mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector

Henderson, Ben; Frank, Stefan; Havlik, Petr; Valin, Hugo - 2021

This study uses GLOBIOM ‒ the most detailed global economic model of agriculture, land use and greenhouse gas (GHG …) emissions ‒ to assess the effectiveness of different policies in cutting net emissions from the Agriculture, Forestry and Other …

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