The globalization of food trade has needed robust traceability systems to ensure consumer safety, quality and sustainability product. By fostering transparency in agricultural practices and encouraging responsible resource use, traceability plays a key role in protecting the environment and...

In this paper, we discuss the agricultural trade between Brazil and China. We select a set of key commodities and debate whether there are obstacles or opportunities to increase trade between the two economies. Following an institutional and historical analysis, we provide a statistical...

The literature on regional trade agreements points out two main effects: trade criation and trade diversion. While the former refers to the substitution of less efficient producers for more efficient ones due to the global protection, the latter captures the substitution of the more efficient...