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Agricultural trade and development : a value chain perspective
Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015
The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507756
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Agricultural trade and development: A value chain perspective
Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2015
The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011273928
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Agricultural trade and development: A value chain perspective
Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan - 2015
The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513019
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Agricultural trade and development : a value chain perspective
Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015
The system of global agricultural and food trade is undergoing rapid processes of change, with important implications for economic development. In this paper we document and discuss these changes; including the rapid growth and structural change in agri-food trade, the increased consolidation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882821
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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009
The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in historical context, examines its key provisions, and argues that the Agreement systematically favors industrialized country agricultural producers at the expense of farmers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050425
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050535
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Lessons from Haiti : The Economics of Food-Aid & Third World Countries
Nath, Devangshu - 2013
-aid programmes, looking at the aspect of 'economics of food-aid' and will illustrate how such programmes are more profitable to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092884
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Enhancing the food security of the peri-urban and urban poor through improvements to the quality, safety and economics of street-vended foods
Johnson, Paa-Nii T.; Yawson, Robert M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000
assessing the safety and quality of food sold in Accra as well as estimates the contribution of this sector to the national … ensuring that city dwellers are able to procure sufficient food. Street foods are sold in almost every country in the world. In …, especially among the poor women. Street foods have a long tradition in most countries. The role of this sector in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372621
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Safety, Risk and the Precautionary Principle : Rethinking Precautionary Approaches to the Regulation of Transgenic Plants
Conko, Gregory - 2015
Operationalizing the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety will require resolving disputes about the meaning of the term 'precautionary approach' in the treaty text. Although the terms precautionary approach and precautionary principle have been referred to in the regulation of transgenic plants for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061213
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Another Look at Biotech Regulation
Kalaitzandonakes, Nicholas - 2012
The EU has had the difficult task of creating new regulations for genetically modified food labeling while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071476