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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Kjersti Nes, K. Aleks Schaefer, Daniel P. Scheitrum
Summary: This study demonstrates that non-adoption of GE technology reduces a country's access to imports and increases its prices, leaving the country worse off relative to a world in which the technology never existed.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Joseph W. Glauber
Summary: The trade wars initiated by the Trump Administration in 2018 had a negative impact on US agriculture, particularly in soybean and commodity exports. To maintain political support from farmers, the administration authorized around $28 billion in compensation payments, but this may exacerbate trade tensions and lead to future WTO disputes.
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Wen-Jie Xie, Jian-An Li, Na Wei, Li Wang, Wei-Xing Zhou
Summary: The international pesticide trade network is crucial for global food production and security. This study proposes a novel method for computing network link centrality and verifies its effectiveness using a dual graph. The results indicate that trade relationships with higher centrality indicators based on the dual graph have a greater impact on network efficiency.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Anne Marie Thow, Amerita Ravuvu, Siope Vakataki Ofa, Neil Andrew, Erica Reeve, Jillian Tutuo, Tom Brewer
Summary: This study analyzes the trends of intra-regional food trade in the Pacific region and finds that intra-regional trade represents a small but increasing proportion of total imports. Cereal grains and flour are the major food group traded within the Pacific region. Trade in root crops is negligible. Fiji plays a significant role in intra-regional food imports, particularly for non-traditional staple foods.
GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH
(2022)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Azmat Gani
Summary: This study explores the main factors driving live animal imports in GCC countries in the Middle East, finding that importer countries' economic sizes, liner shipping connectivity, and culture are all statistically significant drivers. Additionally, falling tariffs and business costs for live cattle and sheep imports play a role, while distance acts as a significant friction for live goat imports.
BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL
(2021)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Fan Feng, Ningyuan Jia, Faqin Lin
Summary: This study uses a quantitative and structural multi-country and multi-sector general equilibrium trade model to analyze the potential impacts of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on global food trade pattern and security. The study finds that the conflict will lead to soaring agricultural prices, decreasing trade volume, and severe food insecurity for countries heavily reliant on grain imports from Ukraine and Russia. Additionally, major production countries such as the United States and Canada may even benefit from the conflict.
CHINA AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Cancan Qiao, Changxiu Cheng, Tariq Ali
Summary: Soybean planting is concentrated and sensitive to climate change, making global soybean security vulnerable. This study predicts a reduction in soybean yield in the top ten producing countries in the future, leading to insufficient global supply and higher prices. However, trade liberalization can mitigate the negative impact of climate change, although it may negatively affect domestic supply in export-oriented regions.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
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Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
Yin-Ting Zhang, Wei-Xing Zhou
Summary: International food trade is susceptible to unforeseen shocks, despite being an increasingly important solution to domestic food supply and demand gaps. This study constructs international crop trade networks using trade data for maize, rice, soybean, and wheat from 1986 to 2020. By analyzing multidimensional node importance metrics and correlation structures, we identify key economies and their impact on the trade networks. Our findings highlight the significance of European economies and the role of economies with poor crop production in import trade, while economies with higher food production or smaller populations are crucial for export trade. These insights have practical implications for maintaining stable food supply and ensuring food security.
CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS
(2023)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Mindy L. Mallory
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the export patterns of major commodities in the US and Brazil, particularly in the meat trade. While beef and pork exports from the US were affected by processing facility shutdowns due to COVID-19 outbreaks, poultry exports remained strong. Trends in grain and oilseed exports were unaffected by the pandemic in 2020.
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
(2021)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Torbjorn Jansson, Ida Nordin, Fredrik Wilhelmsson, Peter Witzke, Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Franz Weiss, Alexander Gocht
Summary: The study found that removing voluntary coupled support for ruminants in the EU can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the EU, but emissions leakage significantly diminishes the global mitigation effect.
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
(2021)
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Mechanics
Mu-Yao Li, Li Wang, Wen-Jie Xie, Wei-Xing Zhou
Summary: Fertilizer availability is crucial for global food security, and international fertilizer trade plays a vital role in reallocating fertilizers across multiple economies. However, the stability of international fertilizer trade relationships between economies has not been studied. Using 29 year records of the global fertilizer trade from 1990 to 2018, the researchers construct three temporal networks linked to three primary nutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash. By introducing a link stability indicator, they analyze the factors influencing the stability of the fertilizer trade and provide advice for trading participants to establish highly stable transactions.
JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
(2023)
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Economics
Giovanni Maggi, Ralph Ossa
Summary: We examine international regulatory agreements negotiated under lobbying pressures from producer groups, and find that the impact of lobbying on regulatory policies and welfare depends on the alignment or conflict of interests among producers in different countries. Agreements on product standards, when influenced by strong producer lobbies, lead to excessive deregulation and decreased welfare, while agreements on process standards tighten regulations and enhance welfare.
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
(2023)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Paul Brenton, Vicky Chemutai, Mari Pangestu
Summary: This article explores the interplay between climate change, the production and trade of agricultural products, and the resulting food security implications. It emphasizes that food security cannot be guaranteed by domestic production alone for most countries, and imports and exports are crucial. The article also provides recommendations for action at the global, regional, and country levels.
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
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Agricultural Economics & Policy
Kalle Hirvonen, Alan de Brauw, Gashaw T. Abate
Summary: Despite subjective income measures indicating job loss or reduced incomes for many households, a study in Addis Ababa found that food consumption and household dietary diversity remained largely unchanged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although there were some changes in food consumption patterns, they were not related to shocks previously identified in surveys. This suggests that subjective income questions in COVID-19 phone surveys may not accurately reflect the true impact of the pandemic on food security.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
(2021)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Sheng Zhong, Bin Su
Summary: This paper uses a unified gravity model framework and focuses on various policy measures to analyze the determinants of natural resource flows. The results show that open trade policy is a key factor in increasing resource exports, while improving resource efficiency reduces exports. In addition, environmental policies also play a role. These findings can help policymakers better manage the trade-offs between economic growth, resource security, and environmental consequences.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)