Agricultural Trade and Development

Abstract

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 food supply chains, the proliferation of public and private food standards, high and volatile food prices, and increased vertical coordination in the chains. We investigate what the implications are of these changes for developing countries, for their participation in international agricultural trade as well as for economic development, income mobility and poverty reduction in rural areas.

Services Development, Technological Innovation, and the Embedded Location of the Agricultural Global Value Chain

“…(1) Trade openness (OPEN): The transmission mechanism of trade openness influences the upgrading of the global value chain by generating an economies of scale effect, learning effect, and a resource efficiency allocation effect through export trade, which enhances the international division of labor in a country's agriculture, influencing the position of the country's agriculture in the global value chain (Maertens and Swinnen, 2015; Said and Fang, 2019) [38,39]. This paper used the share of a country's (regional) exports of goods and services in its GDP to measure its degree of trade openness.…”

Value Chain Analysis of Kidney Beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) in the Api-Region of Darchula District, Nepal

“…Due to services such as prefinancing, there are significant linkages between seed businesses and seed multipliers (producers), as well as between village collectors and producers. Despite tighter regulations, exports increased dramatically, and the shift from smallholder contract farming to integrated estate production changed the mechanism by which impoverished households gain (Rusike et al, 2019;Maertens & Swinnen, 2015, 2009Swinnen, 2014;Swinnen et al, 2013).…”