A Research Agenda for International Agricultural Trade

Martín, Will

doi:10.1093/aepp/ppx063

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“…The Government of India, under its national horticultural mission launched in [2005][2006], outlined several objectives, including enhanced horticultural production; improved nutritional security and income support to farm households; and an end-to-end holistic approach covering production, post-harvest management, processing, and marketing to ensure that producers receive appropriate returns. India's foreign agricultural trade policy also emphasizes the need to boost growth and promote horticultural exports (Martin 2018). This study provides the tools to address these government policy concerns.…”

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Production Risks, Risk Preference and Contract Farming: Impact on Food Security in India

Mishra

Kumar²,

Joshi³

et al. 2018

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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This article reviews the literature on contract farming (CF) in India and assesses the impact of smallholders' perceived production risks on the adoption of CF; the impact of CF on smallholders' food security; and its impact on employment generation in their farming enterprises. We also show the impact of the outcome variables by risk preference of smallholders. Using farm-level data and endogenous switching regression methods, this study presents three key findings. First, the perception of weather and pest risk, access to irrigation facilities, extension visits, and access to institutional credit are the main drivers of CF adoption. Second, CF adoption increases food security and varies with the revealed risk preference of smallholders, and risk-seeking smallholders tend to gain higher food security. Third, regardless of revealed risk preferences, smallholders who did not adopt CF benefit from adoption by reducing their labor requirements, with no significant losses in yield.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Production Risks, Risk Preference and Contract Farming: Impact on Food Security in India

Mishra

Kumar²,

Joshi³

et al. 2018

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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“…The agri-food trade from developing countries (and this was just typical of countries in Africa) has progressively expanded since the mid-1990s, but suffered a setback since 2014 (Martin, 2018). Nigeria's agri-food trade underwent a similar dynamic.…”

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Products Mapping' and Agri-Food Trade between Nigeria and ECOWAS Member Countries

Zdráhal

Verter

Daňková

et al. 2019

Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun.

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Intra-ECOWAS trade and food evxports have been debated and given attention in recent years. The paper uses an analytical tool, called ‘products mapping’ following some methods, such as trade balance index, Balassa index and Lafay index to analyse comparative advantages in all 46 food items (SITC 0 + 1 + 22 + 4) in trade between Nigeria and ECOWAS as well as the world. The findings suggest that Nigeria has performed better in trading with other ECOWAS countries than in trading with the overall world market. For Nigeria and the world, the findings reveal that the country’s comparative advantages reduced from 12 out of 46 (12/46) in 1995 to 8/46 food products in 2017. The notable products that reveal comparative advantages and positive TBI are cocoa (SITC 072), crustaceans (SITC 036), fruits and nuts (SITC 057); and oil seeds and oleaginous fruits (SITC 222). Contrary to Nigeria’s trade with the world, the results suggest that the country’s comparative advantages in trading with ECOWAS countries rose from 19/46 in 1995 to 26/46 food products in 2017. The notable products that show comparative advantages and positive TBI are tobacco, edible products, maize and wheat. Inversely, food products with comparative disadvantage and adverse TBI, slightly reduced from 18/46 in 1995 to 17/46 in 2017. The findings further suggest that the structure of Nigeria’s food trade with ECOWAS has started involving and improving, albeit at a slow pace. There is an urgent need to stimulate domestic food production and food processing industries for domestic consumption and exports. Regional and national agricultural policies should be dramatically implemented for self-sufficiency and more comparative advantages and the number of positive TBI to be ensured and sustained.

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“…Estimating the environmental benefits requires identifying the specific improvements in environmental amenities that can be attributed to the interventions and also determining a method of valuing those improvements (FAO 2014). In the case of food security effects, the benefits are even more challenging to estimate because the benefits relate to longer-term sustainability issues associated with ensuring sufficient land, water, and other resources to produce food for a growing population (Kummu et al 2017;Martin 2018). In the short-term, some food security benefits may accrue from the redistribution of uneaten food (Gundersen and Ziliak 2018;Lusk and McCluskey 2018), but the longerterm sustainability issues are likely to have greater impact on improving food security.…”

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Opportunities and Challenges in Conducting Economic Research on Food Loss and Waste

Ellison

Muth

Golan

2019

Applied Eco Perspectives Pol

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Food loss and waste (FLW) issues are receiving heightened attention from local, national, and international governments and nongovernmental organizations. While research in the FLW space is growing rapidly, economists have important contributions to make to the FLW conversation. In this paper we discuss the opportunities and challenges in conducting economic research on FLW. We highlight some of the more technical opportunities and challenges related to data, measurement, and evaluation of FLW reduction initiatives as these are often focal points in the current FLW literature. In addition, we discuss the notion of optimal FLW, which has been mostly absent from the policy discussion to date. Economic analyses can help contribute towards identifying market failures that support the need for FLW interventions, estimating the costs and benefits of FLW interventions, and clearly identifying the winners and losers of potential mandatory requirements to reduce FLW.

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A Research Agenda for International Agricultural Trade

Cited by 35 publications

References 60 publications

Production Risks, Risk Preference and Contract Farming: Impact on Food Security in India

Production Risks, Risk Preference and Contract Farming: Impact on Food Security in India

Products Mapping' and Agri-Food Trade between Nigeria and ECOWAS Member Countries

Opportunities and Challenges in Conducting Economic Research on Food Loss and Waste

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