A new round of WTO negotiations on agriculture, services and perhaps some other issues is expected to be launched in late 1999. To what extent should those negotiations include so-called "new trade agenda" items aimed at ensuring that domestic regulatory policies do not discriminate against...

Rapid industrialization in East Asia, particularly China, is raising questions about who will feed the region in the next century and how Asia will pay for its food imports. The paper addresses this question by first reviewing existing food sector projections and then taking an economy-wide...

Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm products continue to provide an incomplete indication of the extent to which agricultural producer and consumer incentives are distorted in national markets. As well, in developing...

Across Europe, Germany is the most important country in the production and consumption of Christmas trees. Pricing is cyclically asserved and depends mainly on the number of mature trees and on the potential occurrence of calamities caused by hail and late frost in the early summer. Due to the...

The adoption of a Geographical Indication (gi) represents, among other things, a way of innovation and market advantage. As only a few, relatively recent studies have investigated this topic in Brazil, this research aims to verify the historical, cultural and economic perceptions of consumers...

Raspberries from Serbia have a good reputation and those from Arilje are protected by a geographical indication registration within the state of Serbia. Recently, producers and other stakeholders have been considering promoting this Geographical indication (gi) produce outside of Serbia, and...

The Second Edition of <em>The Future of Food Business: The Facts, The Impacts and The Acts</em> is an updated collection of thoughtful articles previously published in leading newspapers around the world based on the author's practical life as international project leader, consultant, businessman,...

Rapid trade-led economic growth in emerging Asia has been shifting the global economic and industrial centres of gravity away from the north Atlantic, raising the importance of Asia in world trade but also altering the commodity composition of trade by Asia and other regions. What began with...

This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events in Sub-Saharan African countries to study the impact of external income shocks on the likelihood of violence. We consider a number of external demand shocks faced by the countries or the regions within...