Overview, in Africa agriculture trade monitor 2020

Bouët, Antoine; Odjo, Sunday P.; Zaki, Chahir

doi:10.2499/9780896293908_01

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“…We note that the 35% reduction of Abrego et al (2019) is not the lowest in the literature, rather Bouët et al (2022) has a "low ambition" scenario of 25% (they also have a "high ambition" scenario of 80%). Given that there is no agreement from the literature on what portion of NTMs will be reduced in AfCFTA-and one goal of this article is to show the trade gains from NTM reduction, we adopt the most conservative 25% scenario from Bouët et al (2022). Apart from the lack of consensus on the appropriate reduction in the literature, Santeramo and Lamonaca (2019) point out reduction in NTM costs is translated to a change in productivity.…”

Section: Ntm Reductionmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…5 Note that this implies that their AVE estimates are higher than NTM_S1. Referring to Nguyen et al (2022), Bouët et al (2022) state that the main reason for this difference is "[i]n all the studies evaluating the ad valorem equivalent (AVE) of NTMs based on a gravity equation and conducted before (here citing an original working paper of Nguyen et al, 2022), Jensen's inequality is not considered. This omission leads to a significant underestimation (or sometimes an overestimation, depending on the standard error of the coefficient) of the restrictive impact of NTMs and can even change the sign of the AVE (pg.…”

Section: Afcfta Tariffs and Ntmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…17 All five articles mentioned in the Simola et al (2021) work also appear in the literature review for World Bank (2020). Two of them (Simola et al, 2021;World Bank, 2020) also appear in the Bouët et al (2022) literature review. These two articles use a similar CGE model as Bouët et al (2020), hence their inclusion.…”

Section: Ntm Reductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two of them (Simola et al, 2021;World Bank, 2020) also appear in the Bouët et al (2022) literature review. These two articles use a similar CGE model as Bouët et al (2020), hence their inclusion. We compare our results to these articles (Bouët et al 2020;Simola et al, 2021;World Bank, 2020) to validate our work.…”

Section: Ntm Reductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agriculture and AfCFTA: NTM reductions increase intra‐Africa trade

Beckman,

Johnson,

Ivanic

2024

Agricultural Economics

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The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is expected to provide trade gains for Africa, especially from reducing non‐tariff measures (NTM). Unfortunately, data on NTMs is scarce, both by country and sector. Using three underlying NTM data sets and other data sources, we provide a range of estimates to fill the missing gaps in the existing estimates. Focusing on agriculture, we then use a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the effects of the AfCFTA. Results from all three data sets indicate that NTM reduction leads to much greater intra‐Africa trade gains than tariff reduction alone.

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Section: Ntm Reductionmentioning

confidence: 68%

Section: Afcfta Tariffs and Ntmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ntm Reductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Ntm Reductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Agriculture and AfCFTA: NTM reductions increase intra‐Africa trade

Beckman,

Johnson,

Ivanic

2024

Agricultural Economics

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“…The ceased export of rice created an important risk for access to food in Africa. Strict sanitary border controls posed another threat to food access across Africa, as they increased the transaction costs of food imports (Bouët, 2020). The resulting risks of delayed access to main food staples, like rice, raised the concerns of the African public about their food security in March-April 2020.…”

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confidence: 99%

Localising value chains and food system resilience : A systematic exploration

Bakker

Beekman²,

Piters³

et al. 2021

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Er is toenemende aandacht voor het lokaliseren van Afrikaanse voedselsystemen om daarmee wereldwijde crises beter het hoofd te kunnen bieden. Echter, het onderwerp is niet onomstreden, en er is weinig bekend over de implicaties van lokaliseringsbeleid. Deze studie presenteert een analysekader aan de hand waarvan deze implicaties, waaronder de trade-offs binnen het voedselsysteem, op systematische manier in kaart gebracht kunnen worden. Het analysekader kan op diverse cases worden toegepast, en draagt daarmee bij aan beter geïnformeerd beleid rondom lokalisering van voedselsystemen.There is increasing attention for the potential benefits of localising food African systems to better cope with global crises. However, the topic is not uncontested, and little is known about the actual implications of localisation policies for food. This study presents an analysis framework through which these implications, including trade-offs within the food system, can be explored in a systematic way.The framework can be applied to various cases, thereby contributing to better informed policies related to localising food systems.

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African economic integration and trade

Stack,

Amissah,

Bliss

2023

World Economy

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Economic integration ranks as one of the leading development strategies in Africa. The newly created African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and the proposed Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) linking three major regional blocks offer a new impetus to studying trade policy effects. Using a structural gravity model of bilateral manufacturing trade between the African Union member states and all countries in the world, the trade effects of African economic integration agreements (EIAs) are assessed. The findings suggest that economic integration, in aggregate, enhances total African exports. Disaggregating the effects by type of agreement and by subgroups of countries, free trade agreements (FTAs) and partial scope agreements (PSAs) are found to increase extra‐African exports, but have no effects on intra‐African exports. A positive and significant effect on intra‐African exports is introduced when the FTA dummy is combined with AfCFTA in contrast to a neutral effect stemming from the joint FTA‐TFTA dummy. The findings suggest that a continent‐wide FTA yields greater benefits when compared with integrating the subregions.

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Overview, in Africa agriculture trade monitor 2020

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Agriculture and AfCFTA: NTM reductions increase intra‐Africa trade

Agriculture and AfCFTA: NTM reductions increase intra‐Africa trade

Localising value chains and food system resilience : A systematic exploration

African economic integration and trade

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