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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Food trade"”.
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Three Essays on Agricultural and Food Trade Shocks and Regional Integration
… and regional integration on agricultural and food trade, relying on a unique international and intranational (domestic) agri-food trade dataset and structural gravity. In the first chapter, we investigate the impact of animal diseases on trade of animal-based products. We found that animal …
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From local to global: understanding linkages between climate shocks and food trade
… occurrence of these events affects the global food trade network. The overarching goal of this dissertation is to determine if food trade mitigates or exacerbates the impact of extreme weather events to agriculturally-relevant areas. Prior efforts to understand what types of events affect …
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An Assessment of Technical Barriers in Central American Agricultural and Food Trade
… (SPS) measures, technical barriers to trade, and geographical indications) in Central American agricultural and food trade. In the first part, a framework to systematically evaluate the broad issues for developing countries is presented. Evaluation of the issues for Central America is …
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Three Essays on Food Insecurity and Economics
… is composed of three manuscripts focusing on food insecurity and food economics in the United States. The first manuscript titled ``Differences in Food Insecurity Across the Rural/Urban Spectrum - The Role of Trade Flows" uses county food trade data to examine its correlation with food …
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Legal challenges for developing countries exports of agricultural food products to the EU
… of market access issues for agricultural food products from developing countries (DCs) to the European Union (EU). Agriculture is the sector which receives the most protection from the EU and the trade-distorting measures, employed by the EU to protect its own agricultural market, affect …
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Understanding and modeling food flow networks across spatial scales
… live in an increasingly global society, in which food commodity transfers enable production and consumption activities to be separated in space via complex supply chains. Here, we refer to the movement of food commodities from one location to another as ‘food flows’, reserving the term ‘food …
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Consuming Trade in Mid-Eighteenth Century Albany
… and society became crystallized around its food items and their trade, much as the coastal communities commonly studied. Due to the emphasis placed on it by Albanians, food and its trade became the culturally, socially, and economically homogenizing factor that began shaping the modern city …
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Application of Network Reliability to Analyze Diffusive Processes on Graph Dynamical Systems
… contagion clusters in international food trade networks. Further, it is analogous to the partition function of the Ising model which provides insights to the interpolation between the low and high temperature limits.
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Climate Change and Virtual Water: Implications for UK Food Security
Demand for both food and water are projected to increase substantially in the next four decades. Water scarcity is also projected to increase in scale and complexity. Climate change is projected to increase temperatures, spatio-temporal variability in rainfall, frequency and severity of droughts …
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The politics of new industrial policy : sectoral governance reform in Vietnam's agro-export industries
… in governance outcomes within and across the seafood and rice export sectors in Vietnam, this dissertation develops a political framework to explain why some export sectors, at some moments in time, develop nimble, market-responsive governance and others do not. The argument revolves around three …
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Crime on the High Seas: What Conditions Are Necessary to Achieve Effective Maritime Governance Regime?
… community relies on the world’s oceans for food, trade, and resources. Therefore, the regulation of these oceans is necessary to provide adequate passage through its waters and the management of all the resources they supply for the mutual benefit of all. Although there are international …
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Three Essays on the Generalized System of (Trade) Preferences
… System of Preferences (GSP) is a unilateral trade liberalization program in which developed countries offer non-reciprocal tariff reductions (tariff preferences) on certain products imported from designated developing and least developed countries. GSP is considered an important tool in the …
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Sugar and Rice Trade between the United States and Cuba Trade Potential and Welfare Analysis
… Fidel Castro and forty-five years of the U.S.-trade embargo, the political environment between Cuba and the United States is expected to change. With the Trade Sanction Reform and Export Enhancement Act in 2000, trade sanctions were eased for a while. Future trade between both countries would …
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International Trade Costs and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agricultural Trade
… describes two essays in empirical international trade, focusing on trade costs and the pattern of trade along the intensive and extensive margins. In the first essay, I study the barriers that impede international trade. In the second paper, I examine the growth of U.S. agricultural trade in …
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Toward circular and sustainable nitrogen (N) management in the US and globally
… and ecosystem degradation, undermining food-energy-water (FEW) sustainability. Despite substantial efforts to improve farm-level nutrient management, persistent nutrient pollution indicates that N management challenges extend beyond individual farms and sectors. Therefore, a full …
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Consumer attitudes toward and preferences for local foods in Northern Ireland: Experimental and survey evidence
… attitudes toward and preferences for local foods in Northern Ireland. The thesis innovates by exploring the consistency of choices in stated and revealed preferences and the possibility to nudge behaviour through persuasive communication in the context of local foods. Evidence is based on …
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Trade Patterns of Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from the agri-food sector
… most important players in global agricultural trade, being among the global leaders in the production and exports of agricultural and fisheries commodities and accounting for 15% of the world’s average agri-food export from 1995 to 2019. The region have vast potential to strengthen their …
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Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns, Determinants, Policy Issues
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, food products exported in processed form ('processed food') have expanded faster than traditional (unprocessed) food in world agricultural trade. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the increasing importance of processed food, a high-value set of …
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Processed Food Exports from Developing Countries: Patterns, Determinants, Policy Issues
ABSTRACT Over the past few decades, food products exported in processed form ('processed food') have expanded faster than traditional (unprocessed) food in world agricultural trade. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the increasing importance of processed food, a high-value set of …
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The politics of the table: Nutrition and the telescopic body in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935
… drinkers) from the level of the international food trade all the way down to the vitamins that nourished their cells. It combined a positivist belief in the ability of medicine to heal social ills with a tendency across the political spectrum to describe the nation as an organic whole. It also …
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