Journal
ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201587
Keywords
global trade; relation-driven trade; food security; micronutrients; agent-based model
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- Scottish Government's Environment, Agriculture and Food Strategic Research Portfolio
- Belmont Forum/FACCE-JPI (NERC) [NE/M021327/1]
- NERC [NE/M021327/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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This paper explores the relationship between global trade and food security by developing a relation-driven agent-based global trade model. Preliminary results show that global trade improves food and nutrition security in countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
This paper addresses the highly relevant and timely issues of global trade and food security by developing an empirically grounded, relation-driven agent-based global trade model. Contrary to most price-driven trade models in the literature, the relation-driven agent-based global trade model focuses on the role of relational factors such as trust, familiarity, trade history and conflicts in countries' trade behaviour. Moreover, the global trade model is linked to a comprehensive nutrition formula to investigate the impact of trade on food and nutrition security, including macro and micronutrients. Preliminary results show that global trade improves the food and nutrition security of countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Trade also promotes a healthier and more balanced diet, as countries have access to an increased variety of food. The effect of trade in enhancing nutrition security, with an adequate supply of macro and micronutrients, is universal across nutrients and countries. As researchers call for a holistic and multifactorial approach to food security and climate change (Hammond and Dube 2012 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA109, 12 356-12 363. (doi:10.1073/pnas.0913003109)), the paper is one of the first to develop an integrated framework that consists of socio-economic, geopolitical, nutrition, environmental and agri-food systems to tackle these global challenges. Given the ongoing events of Brexit, the US-China trade war and the global COVID-19 pandemic, the paper will provide valuable insights on the role of trade in improving the food and nutrition security across countries.
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