Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub‐Saharan African Countries?

Balié, Jean; Prete, Davide Del; Magrini, Emiliano; Montalbano, Pierluigi; Nenci, Silvia

doi:10.1093/ajae/aay091

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“…Similar findings are reported by Balié et al. (2018). Using a structural gravity model where the dependent variable is trade in value added for agriculture and food sectors, they showed that bilateral trade policies are key determinants of both backward and forward GVC participation in the food sector and, to a lesser extent, in the agricultural sector.…”

Section: Globalization Of Value Chains and Political Economysupporting

confidence: 93%

“…First, GVCs’ forward and backward integration in the agricultural and food sectors, though lower on average than in the manufacturing sectors, has important variation across sectors (see Figure 2). Second, GVC integration has grown significantly in the last decades (Balié et al., 2018). Third, there is also significant variation across countries.…”

Section: Globalization Of Value Chains and Political Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

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From unfair prices to unfair trading practices: Political economy, value chains and 21st century agri‐food policy

Swinnen

Olper

Vandevelde

2021

Agricultural Economics

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This paper analyzes how value chains play a role in the political economy of agricultural and food policy by (1) discussing historical insights; (2) reviewing an emerging literature on political economy of trade policy and value chains and drawing implications for agricultural and food policy; (3) discussing market power issues with increasing concentration in agri-food value chains and its implications for government regulations; and (4) presenting a political economy case study of recent regulations that have explicitly targeted value chain structures in the agrifood sector: the EU regulations on "unfair trading practices (UTPs)". The case study is of wider relevance since it addresses a key concern in global value chains.

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Section: Globalization Of Value Chains and Political Economysupporting

confidence: 93%

Section: Globalization Of Value Chains and Political Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

From unfair prices to unfair trading practices: Political economy, value chains and 21st century agri‐food policy

Swinnen

Olper

Vandevelde

2021

Agricultural Economics

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“…The results of this letter suggest that, as countries get more integrates through international trade, the absence of technological progress to offset the demand of land from population and income growth, would result in increased cropland expansion across the world. Such levels of integration are likely to increase as trade policies are implemented in order to satisfy regional increases in demand for crops as a result of biofuel production and income growth (Baldos and Hertel 2016) and greater participation of developing countries in global value chains (Maertens et al 2012, Balié et al 2018. Ready access to international markets may be an important mechanism to alleviate the supply fluctuations of a more variable climate (Baldos and Hertel 2015).…”

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Consequences of agricultural total factor productivity growth for the sustainability of global farming: accounting for direct and indirect land use effects

Villoria

2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Most of the growth in agricultural output in the last thirty years comes from increases in the efficiency with which both land and non-land inputs are used. Recent work calls for a better understanding of whether this efficiency, known as total factor productivity (TFP), contributes to a more sustainable food system. Key to this understanding is the documented phenomenon that, instead of saving lands, the introduction of technologies that improve agricultural productivity encourage cropland expansion. We extend the results of a recently published econometric model of cross-country cropland change and TFP growth to explore the extent to which improvements in technology were associated with lower greenhouse emissions from land conversion to agriculture as well as with lower land conversion pressures in biodiversity-rich biomes. We focus on the decade of 2001-2010, a period in which our sample of 70 countries (≈75% of global croplands) experienced net land contraction. Except in sub-Saharan Africa and South and East Asia, regional TFP growth was associated with regional land expansion, thus confirming the existence of Jevons paradox in most regions of the world. However, such expansion was more than offset by indirect land use effects stemming from increases in productivity somewhere else. These indirect effects are far from trivial. In the absence of TFP growth, our estimates suggest that ≈125 Mha would have been needed to satisfy demand, half of which are in the four most biodiverse biomes of the world; estimated land use emissions from the ensuing changes in land use range from a lower bound of 17 Gt CO2eq to an upper bound of 84 Gt CO2eq, depending on whether the expansion would have occurred on pasturelands or forest, in contrast to the ≈1 to 15 Gt CO2eq imputed to observed cropland expansion. Our projections of the land needed to satisfy projected growth in TFP per capita during 2018-2023 indicate that current rates of TFP growth are insufficient to prevent further land expansion, reversing in most cases the in-sample trends in land contraction observed during 2001-2010.

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“…Academic research on the agricultural industry value chain is mainly focused on participation model analysis [69,70], participation efficiency [71,72], measurement and development of value chain position [73,74], value chain financing model [75,76], and performance study of value chain participation [29,77]. The widely existing new agricultural business entities and social service organizations actively assist farmers in joining the agricultural value chain.…”

Section: Implication and Classification Of The Agricultural Value Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Evaluating the Impacts of Smallholder Farmer’s Participation in Modern Agricultural Value Chain Tactics for Facilitating Poverty Alleviation—A Case Study of Kiwifruit Industry in Shaanxi, China

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Market-based initiatives like agriculture value chain (AVC) are becoming progressively pervasive to support smallholder rural farmers and assist them in entering larger market interventions and providing a pathway of enhancing their socioeconomic well-being. Moreover, it may also foster staggering effects towards the post-era poverty alleviation in rural areas and possessed a significant theoretical and practical influence for modern agricultural development. The prime objective of the study is to explore the effects of smallholder farmers’ participation in the agricultural value chain for availing rural development and poverty alleviation. Specifically, we have crafted the assessment employing pre-production (improved fertilizers usage), in-production (modern preservation technology), and post-production (supply chain) participation and interventions of smallholder farmers. The empirical data has been collected from a micro survey dataset of 623 kiwifruit farmers from July to September in Shaanxi, China. We have employed propensity score matching (PSM), probit, and OLS models to explore the multidimensional poverty reduction impact and heterogeneity of farmers’ participation in the agricultural value chain. The results show that the total number of poor farmers who have experienced one-dimensional and two-dimensional poverty is relatively high (66.3%). We also find that farmers’ participation in agricultural value chain activities has a significant poverty reduction effect. The multidimensional poverty level of farmers using improved fertilizer, organizational acquisition, and using storage technology (compared with non-participating farmers) decreased by 30.1%, 46.5%, and 25.0%, respectively. The multidimensional poverty reduction degree of male farmers using improved fertilizer and participating in the organizational acquisition is greater than that of women. The multidimensional poverty reduction degree of female farmers using storage and fresh-keeping technology has a greater impact than the males using storage and improved storage technology. Government should widely promote the value chain in the form of pre-harvest, production, and post-harvest technology. The public–private partnership should also be strengthened for availing innovative technologies and infrastructure development.

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Does Trade Policy Impact Food and Agriculture Global Value Chain Participation of Sub‐Saharan African Countries?

Cited by 57 publications

References 48 publications

From unfair prices to unfair trading practices: Political economy, value chains and 21st century agri‐food policy

From unfair prices to unfair trading practices: Political economy, value chains and 21st century agri‐food policy

Consequences of agricultural total factor productivity growth for the sustainability of global farming: accounting for direct and indirect land use effects

Evaluating the Impacts of Smallholder Farmer’s Participation in Modern Agricultural Value Chain Tactics for Facilitating Poverty Alleviation—A Case Study of Kiwifruit Industry in Shaanxi, China

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