Market Access for African Agricultural Exports: Assessment of the AoA and SPS Agreements

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gashahun Lemessa ◽  
Tilahun Esmael
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Agricultural Exports

scholarly journals Globalisation, Logistics and Food Supply: Evidence from Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-291
Author(s):  
Duc Nha Le
Keyword(s):  
Food Supply ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Agricultural Export ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Panel Data Estimation ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

Most countries satisfy domestic food consumption by importing from foreign supplies, thus highlighting the role of agricultural exports in maintaining and diversifying the global food supply. In the age of globalisation, whether the flourishing number of regional trade agreements (RTAs) has been facilitating greater market access of agricultural and food products is questioned by national governments. Meanwhile, logistics performance has been the bottleneck of emerging economies, which exerts negative impacts on agricultural export competitiveness in foreign markets. Overall, the interlink between globalisation, logistics and food supply has not been addressed adequately. Therefore, this paper employs the trade gravity model to examine the relationship between agricultural exports, RTAs membership, and logistics performance in the case of Vietnam and her 97 major trading partners. Static and dynamic panel data estimation are employed with the methods applied to solving the zero trade and endogeneity concerns. Findings confirm the interlink between globalisation, logistics and food supply. RTAs-based globalisation and logistics policies are intertwined to secure and diversify import-driven food supply. The unified framework for long-term and sustainable development which aims at strengthening the interlink between globalisation, logistics, agriculture and global food supply should be considered in policy formulation.

scholarly journals Durability of Zambia’s Agricultural Exports

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Joseph Phiri ◽  
Karel Malec ◽  
Socrates Kraido Majune ◽  
Seth Nana Kwame Appiah-Kubi ◽  
Zdeňka Gebeltová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Foreign Market ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
First Year ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Export Subsidies ◽  
Agriculture Products ◽  
Export Duration

This paper establishes the determinants of the export durability of agriculture products in Zambia with specific attention to maize, sugar, cotton, and tobacco between 1996 and 2019. We find that approximately 39% of Zambia’s agricultural products were exported beyond the first year of trading and less than 10% lasted up to 6 years of trading. The mean and median duration of exporting agricultural products in Zambia was 1.7 years and 1 year, respectively. Among the products, maize had the highest export duration after the first year of trading, followed by sugar, tobacco, and cotton. Results of the discrete-time logit and probit models with random effects revealed that the duration of total agricultural products was significantly impacted by common colony, contiguity, partner’s gross domestic product (GDP), Zambia’s GDP, initial exports, and total exports. Of these factors, colonial history and Zambia’s GDP reduced export duration, while contiguity, partner’s GDP, initial exports, and total exports increased the durability of exports in Zambia. The effect of Zambia’s GDP was uniform across all individual agricultural products. Total exports also significantly impacted all other agriculture products in a similar manner except for maize. Export durability for cotton was significantly impacted by the Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), while the export durability of tobacco was significantly impacted by distance, contiguity, and partner’s GDP. To increase the duration of agriculture exports, we propose the exporting of finished agriculture products (and not just raw materials), which have a higher market value and duration probability. Farmers also need support with export subsidies, increased foreign market access (especially to economies with higher buying power), and negotiated favorable trade terms in the region and around the globe.

scholarly journals The Impact of High-Speed Railway Accession on Agricultural Exports: Evidence from Chinese Agriculture-Related Enterprises

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Jianjun Zhou ◽  
Xiayang Fan ◽  
Aizhi Yu
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Transportation Infrastructure ◽  
High Speed Railway ◽  
Agricultural Exports ◽  
Information Barriers ◽  
Surrounding Areas ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Although many studies have analyzed the transportation infrastructure effects on economic and trade development, little is known about the relationship between transportation infrastructure and trade in the agricultural sector. We take the opening of China’s high-speed railway (HSR) as a quasi-natural experiment and use multiperiod DID model to explore the impact and mechanism of HSR on agriculture-related enterprises’ exports. The results show that HSR can promote export growth of agriculture-related enterprises by 6.9%, and it will reach 10% in 5 years. However, the effect of HSR on the export of agriculture-related enterprises only exists within 45 km around HSR stations. HSR can reduce information barriers and costs for enterprises to enter the international market by providing transportation convenience and improving market access levels. HSR also offers local areas more transportation advantage compared to other surrounding areas, which in turn makes a siphon effect on export activities. Both these mechanisms are significant within 45 km, and it is extremely obvious for poor transportation areas and enterprises with higher productivity, and the siphon effect is even stronger than market access. Heterogeneity analysis results demonstrate that HSR has different effects for different types of enterprises.

Market access, teff production, and fertilizer use over time

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Keyword(s):  
Market Access ◽  
Fertilizer Use ◽  
Over Time

THE POVERTY REDUCTION SOLUTIONS FOR ETHNIC MINORITIES IN THE NORTH EASTERN BORDER AREA USING THE MARKET ACCESS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phi Hung Cuong ◽  
Vu Van Anh
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Eastern Border

Income is an important indicator for assessing the level of economy development as well as identifying and assessing living standards. The population in Northeast border is poor, facilities are outdated, people’s life is difficult, but it hold great potentials for economic development. However, the region’s biggest challenge today is low living standards and high poverty rate. Differences in income and living standards across regions and strata tend to increase the gap. The sustainability of the trend of income increase and improvement of living standards of the population is not stable. As a result, the development of mountainous areas is dependent on poverty reduction solutions for ethnic minorities through the increase of incomes and improvement of market connectivity for ethnic minorities in mountainous areas.

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