International Trade and Agriculture

International Trade and Agriculture

Author: Won W. Koo

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 047075916X

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In an increasingly globalized world, an understanding of the role of international trade is central to the study of agricultural economics and agribusiness. This text interweaves these two elements, explaining the theories and practices relevant to agricultural trade. Using real-life examples to explain theories and models, the text prepares readers to critically examine agricultural trade issues. In addition to its comprehensive coverage, each chapter features chapter overviews and summaries, key concepts, questions for review, and suggested readings. Explains the theories and practices relevant to agricultural trade. Uses real-life agricultural examples to convey theories and models. Offers an international perspective on an increasingly globalized market. Features extensive pedagogical material, including chapter overviews and summaries, key concepts, review questions, and suggested readings.


Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation

Agriculture and The World Trade Organisation

Author: G. S. Bhalla, Jean-Luc Racine, Frédéric Landy

Publisher: Les Editions de la MSH

Published: 2008-05-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 2735113787

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The volume offers to the reader a multi-faceted dialogue between noted experts from two major agricultural countries, both founding members of the Word Trade Organisation, each one with different stakes in the great globalisation game. After providing the recent historical background of agricultural policies in India and France, the contributors address burning issues related to market and regulation, food security and food safety, the expected benefits from the WTO and the genuine problems raised by the new forms of international trade in agriculture, including the sensitive question of intellectual property rights in bio-technologies. This informed volume underlines the necessity of moving beyond the North-South divide, in order to address the real challenges of the future.


Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security

Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security

Author: Kym Anderson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 1137469250

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This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security. It argues that reforming policies that distort food prices and trade will promote the openness needed to maximize global food availability and reduce fluctuations in international food prices. Beginning with an examination of historical trends in markets and policies, Anderson assesses the prospects for further reforms, and projects how they may develop over the next fifteen years. He pays particular attention to domestic policy changes made possible by the information technology revolution, which will complement global change to deal directly with farmer and consumer concerns.


Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade

Product Variety and the Gains from International Trade

Author: Robert C. Feenstra

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780262062800

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"This book is a brilliant exploration of the implications of recent theories of international trade for one of the most important questions in the field: how large are the gains from trade? Feenstra takes the models apart to shed light on the basic mechanisms at play and then masterfully uses the data to understand their quantitative significance."--AndrTs Rodriquez-Clare, Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University -- Book Jacket.


The Right to Food and the World Trade Organization's Rules on Agriculture

The Right to Food and the World Trade Organization's Rules on Agriculture

Author: Rhonda Ferguson

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-01-03

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 9004345302

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In The Right to Food and the World Trade Organization’s Rules on Agriculture: Conflicting, Compatible, or Complementary?, Rhonda Ferguson explores the relationship between the human right to food and agricultural trade rules. She questions whether States can adhere to their obligations under both regimes simultaneously. These two regimes are frequently portrayed to be in tension with one another. The content and contours of the right to food under international human rights law and WTO rules on domestic supports, export subsidies, and market access are considered through the lens of norm conflict theories. The analysis is situated within the context of the debate surrounding the fragmentation of international law.


International Trade in Agricultural Products

International Trade in Agricultural Products

Author: Michael R. Reed

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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This book explores the broad issues and essential topics involved in international agricultural trade: agricultural policy, foreign direct investment, technical barriers, macroeconomics, the environment, preferential trade agreements. It presents this fundamental material as part of a complete treatment that offers students an understanding of how the current trade regime works, and which parties benefit and lose as the regime changes. Chapter topics include gains from trade, policies of importing and exporting companies, multilateral trade negotiations, European agriculture, and international marketing. For individuals with a background in intermediate microeconomics, ready for an extensive graphical analysis of trade issues.


The Law of International Trade in Agricultural Products:From Gatt 1947 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture

The Law of International Trade in Agricultural Products:From Gatt 1947 to the WTO Agreement on Agriculture

Author: Melaku Geboye Desta

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-03-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789041198655

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This book analyses the current realities and future prospects for global trade in agricultural products. It seeks to explain the real or apparent rationale behind the virtual exemption of agricultural trade in general, focusing on the GATT/WTO system but examiming a variety of nation-source policy reasons that generate this crucial counter-current to the general sweep of trade liberalization.


Agriculture and the WTO

Agriculture and the WTO

Author: Merlinda Ingco

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2004-03-17

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 082138368X

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Developing countries have a major stake in the outcome of trade negotiations conducted under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 'Agriculture and the WTO: Creating a Trading System for Development' explores the key issues and options in agricultural trade liberalization from the perspective of these developing countries. Leading experts in trade and agriculture from both developed and developing countries provide key research findings and policy analyses on a range of issues that includes market access, domestic support, export competition, quota administration methods, food security, biotechnology, intellectual property rights, and agricultural trade under the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture. Material is covered in summary and in comprehensive detail with supporting data, a substantial bibliography, and listings of online resources. This book will be of interest to policymakers and analysts in the fields of development economics and commodities pricing and trade.


Africa agriculture trade monitor 2020

Africa agriculture trade monitor 2020

Author: Bouët, Antoine, ed.

Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst

Published: 2020-10-05

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0896293904

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The 2020 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, the third in this series of flagship reports, presents an overview of trade in agriculture products in Africa and highlights the main impediments that affect intra- and extra-African trade. This year’s report includes chapters focusing on intra-Africa trade integration for agricultural products, including the role of nontariff measures, and on the competitiveness of African value chains that are crucial for food security (cereals, sugar, vegetable oils). The importance and measurement of informal cross-border trade for agricultural products is also examined. The final chapter looks at regional integration experiences in Southern Africa, with a focus on the Southern Africa Development Community. The report offers policy recommendations for improving agricultural exports performance, especially in the context of the unprecedented uncertainty the world is facing with the COVID-19 pandemic.


Research Handbook on the WTO Agriculture Agreement

Research Handbook on the WTO Agriculture Agreement

Author: Joseph A. McMahon

Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9781848441163

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'The range of topics covered in this volume is multi-faceted and various. . . Practitioners with clients involved in agri-business will be particularly interested in the broad spectrum of matters discussed, as will trade negotiators, policy advisors and graduate students in this vital and fascinating field.' - Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, the Barrister Magazine