Trade liberalization and state support of agriculture: effects for developing countries

Erokhin, Vasilii; Иволга, Анна; Heijman, Wim

doi:10.17221/137/2013-agricecon

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“…According to Petronevich and Kondrashov [49] and Erokhin et al [50], there is a non-symmetrical relationship between the world's and Russia's food prices. During the declining of world prices, domestic food prices decline at a slower pace, while for some commodity groups, domestic prices do not change at all.…”

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Factors Influencing Food Markets in Developing Countries: An Approach to Assess Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia

Erokhin

2017

Sustainability

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Providing sustainability of the food supply is becoming increasingly challenging in today's rapidly changing global economic environment. Food security remains a serious problem, especially in developing countries where the challenge of the sustainable food supply is exacerbated by the rapid rise in the population, limited access to food intake, vulnerability, price volatilities, protection measures imposed by the government, and other distorting influences. Russia is classified as a middle-income country that is nationally self-sufficient in its food supply. However, amid the economic recession and restrictions on foreign trade in food, many households in Russia are becoming increasingly vulnerable to food insecurity. In the case of Russia, this paper aims to assess the sustainability of the food supply, and identify the factors that affect food security. In order to establish the impact of socio-economic variables on food security at the macroeconomic level, a regression model was estimated. The study has identified the factors that influence food security in terms of agricultural production, food self-sufficiency, and foreign trade. The relationships between the regressands and corresponding regressors have been discovered, in view of alternations between positive and negative influences on the dependent variables. Additionally, a significance of the relationships has been measured. The results of the regression analysis suggest that the sustainability of the food supply in Russia is threatened by inflation and a degrading purchasing power of the population from people shifting towards cheaper products of lower quality, while exporters seek higher profits outside the country and thus create food shortages in the domestic market.

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Factors Influencing Food Markets in Developing Countries: An Approach to Assess Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia

Erokhin

2017

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“…As a counter to liberalization, they are now re-examining their strategies for dealing with domestic agricultural production and food security concerns and seeking measures to improve the sustainability of food supplies while also protecting their domestic food markets from increasing imports. One of the most demonstrative examples of this type of policy is Russia, which alternated between the import-oriented Heijman [21] support that food insecurity is directly related to low income, not to dependence on imports of foodstuffs.…”

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Self-Sufficiency versus Security: How Trade Protectionism Challenges the Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia

Erokhin

2017

Sustainability

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Food security is increasingly influenced by multilateral trade systems and foreign trade policies implemented by national governments. Many of them are now concerned about the sustainability of food supply and the vulnerability of domestic food markets to price volatility, and seek to support domestic producers and protect themselves from increasing food imports. Such restrictions improve food self-sufficiency, but decrease food security. It is important to understand any changes that may have occurred in the food consumption pattern due to trade protectionism and to observe any nutritional implications of these changes. This paper employs the rational food security (RFS) assessment approach, which differentiates sources of food supply on the domestic market, assesses the influence of agricultural and trade frameworks on food consumption patterns, and complies consumption with the appropriate food intake threshold. In the case of Russia, the study demonstrates that the conventional consumption approach to self-sufficiency (FSCA) underestimates the food insecurity level by not accounting for nutrition factors. In addition, the gap between the FSCA and the RFS increases in times of protectionist trade policy and decreases when the agricultural and trade policy framework turns to liberalization. The paper concludes that trade protectionism challenges the sustainability of food supply by decreasing food availability and quality of food products, causes dietary changes, and threatens the food security of the country.

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“…The structure of Russian exports to the EU is homogenous during the last decades -over 78% of Russian exports to EU-27 is mineral fuel (2011). EU-27 exports to Russia are much more diversified, mainly consisting of machineries, equipments and transport vehicles (44% in 2011) (Erokhin -Ivolga, 2011). During the same period of 2001-2011, the annual average increase of EU-27 exports to CIS countries was 13.9%.…”

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Issues of trade integration between EU, CIS and Russia: influences of multilateral trade in agricultural commodities

Erokhin¹,

Иволга²,

Lescheva³

2014

Studia Mundi – Economica

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Trade with agricultural products in last decades becomes more and more internationalized and globalized. A global trading system is now both freer and fairer than ever before and this will boost global prosperity and can make a significant contribution to the global economic development. Favorable conditions for development of international trade with agricultural products are caused by the trade liberalization, development of trade unions and free trade areas all over the world. The paper includes the overview of the WTO threats and opportunities for the Russian agriculture and trade with agricultural products in CIS and EU. This is also related to state support of agricultural production in Russia and CIS and its influence on volumes, directions, structure and effectiveness of bilateral CIS-EU trade with agricultural products.

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Trade liberalization and state support of agriculture: effects for developing countries

Cited by 29 publications

References 12 publications

Factors Influencing Food Markets in Developing Countries: An Approach to Assess Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia

Factors Influencing Food Markets in Developing Countries: An Approach to Assess Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia

Self-Sufficiency versus Security: How Trade Protectionism Challenges the Sustainability of the Food Supply in Russia

Issues of trade integration between EU, CIS and Russia: influences of multilateral trade in agricultural commodities

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