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Globalization in the food sector and poverty

Dörr, Leo; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2024

globalization in the food sector, finding evidence of a significantly aggravating impact on poverty prev-alence, adding to earlier … studies that use indicators of general globalization. The opening of food markets since the mid-1990s in Latin America might …

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The impacts of agricultural trade and support policy reform on climate change adaptation and environmental performance : A model-based analysis

Guerrero, Santiago - 2022

This study investigates whether agricultural policy reforms could help cushion the impacts of climate change on agriculture by facilitating the relocation of production and international trade. The agricultural sector faces immense challenges in ensuring the provision of food, farm incomes,...

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Global value chains in agriculture and food : a synthesis of OECD analysis

OECD - 2020

This report synthesises the key findings and policy messages from recent OECD work on global value chains (GVCs) in agriculture and food. The food and agriculture sector is increasingly organised within GVC around a number of global hubs. Agro-food GVCs have broadened the gains from...

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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...

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …

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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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Agriculture and Trade : Issues in the Climate Change Negotiations

Cosbey, Aaron - 2012

This paper is one of a series of five outputs produced under the Food Security and Climate Change Initiative of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). It surveys the key trade issues in the ongoing negotiations addressing agriculture as a sectoral approach to mitigation...

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Protecting health or protecting imports? : evidence from EU non-tariff barriers

Kareem, Fatima Olanike; Martinez-Zarzoso, Immaculada; … - 2016

Agricultural Organization and the World Health Organization. Our results show that the EU tomato sector is less dependent on …

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Do voluntary sustainability standards increase countries' access to cocoa export markets?

Grassnick, Nina; Brümmer, Bernhard - 2021

Large chocolate manufacturers have committed themselves to only using certifiedcocoa beans and some governments want to increase the share of certified cocoaproducts consumed in their countries. Thus, Voluntary Sustainability Standards(VSSs) become quasi-mandatory for cocoa producers and...

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Exports and governance : the role of private voluntary standards

Fiankor, Dela-Dem; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2018

The empirical evidence that institutional differences across countries affect bilateral trade is robust. The crucial question remains how countries can enhance trade amid these differences. In this paper, we measure the degree to which governance and institutions differ between countries as...

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