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Agricultural Trade Modelling

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Agriculture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2019) | Viewed by 6826

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Caroline Saunders

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Guest Editor
Director AERU, P.O. Box 85084, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand
Interests: sustainable well being; partial equilibrium trade modeling and the environment; consumer trends and behaviors
Mr. John Saunders

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Guest Editor
AERU, P.O. Box 85084, Lincoln University, Lincoln 7647, New Zealand
Interests: long-term trade modeling; climate change; agricultural productivity; bio-security

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to profile agricultural trade modeling, which addresses issues around sustainability. Rapid technological progress and increasing population densities have created highly intensive agricultural enterprises that have led to a range of sustainability concerns. These include impacts on climate change; increased pollution, landscape and water depletion, and regional disparities. Over a similar period, agricultural trade has grown both in terms of quantity and products as well as the supply chains have become more complex. Moreover, the trading environment has changed with focusses on protectionism (especially for agriculture); the growth of free trade agreements; and the concern for environmental consequences. Agricultural trade can both positively and negatively impact on sustainability depending upon whether the production and transportation is more of less resource intensive. Therefore, the issue will, through the use of trade modeling, assess the potential impacts that trade can have on the various components of sustainability. These topics may include the impact on greenhouse gas emissions from the changing trade in agricultural products (particularly livestock and dairy); impact of free trade agreements on resource use and pollution; impact of agricultural subsidies on trade and the environment, etc.

Prof. Caroline Saunders
Mr. John Saunders
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Agricultural Modelling
  • International Trade
  • Trade and the Environment
  • Environmental Economics
  • Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

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Limiting Factors that Influence the Formation of Producer Groups in the South-East Region of Romania: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA)
by Andrei-Mirel Florea, Alexandru Capatina, Riana Iren Radu, Constanța Serban (Bacanu), Madalina Georgiana Boboc, Cristina Stoica (Dinca), Mihaela Munteanu (Pila), Iuliana Manuela Ion (Dumitriu) and Silvius Stanciu
Sustainability 2019, 11(6), 1614; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061614 - 18 Mar 2019
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The fragmentation of the Agricultural Real Estate in Romania, which is due to the lack of vision regarding the retrocession of the land and to the ineffective measures for reparcelling farmland, manifests by the existence of a record number of about 3422 million [...] Read more.
The fragmentation of the Agricultural Real Estate in Romania, which is due to the lack of vision regarding the retrocession of the land and to the ineffective measures for reparcelling farmland, manifests by the existence of a record number of about 3422 million farms in Romania, of which about 92% have a utilized agricultural area (UAA) below 5 ha. The Romanian agricultural sector possesses about 30% of the total European farms but contributes only 3% to the total EU agricultural production. The association of local agricultural producers may be an alternative to reparcelling farmland on a short-term basis in order to reduce the fragmentation degree and increase the competitiveness of the national agricultural sector. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, 25 active groups of agricultural producers are registered in the South-East Region in 2018, where these associative entities have been recorded to have a low degree of viability. The paper proposes an analysis on the farmers’ motivation regarding the access to/exit from a form of agricultural association and the identification of some alternatives for increasing the viability of the associative forms in the agricultural sector in the South-East of Romania. In this respect, a study was carried out on a sample of 16 entities that gave up their status of producer groups in the analyzed region in 2011–2018. The Fuzzy Set Quantitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) Qualitative analysis method was applied, which identified the main influence factors that have led to the disappearance of this associative form. We consider this study relevant for drawing attention to the main obstacles that Romanian farmers face in joining an associative form. The study has shown that mainly the factors directly influenced by government policies have led to the withdrawal of a relatively large number of producers from producer groups in the studied region. Full article
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Pricing Behavior for Sustainably Farmed Fish in International Trade: The Case of Norwegian Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar)
by Bong-Tae Kim
Sustainability 2018, 10(12), 4814; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124814 - 17 Dec 2018
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The purpose of this study is to examine how the competitive advantage on international markets based on sustainable production is reflected in the pricing behavior of farmed fish, using Norwegian Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) as an example. The salmon is widely [...] Read more.
The purpose of this study is to examine how the competitive advantage on international markets based on sustainable production is reflected in the pricing behavior of farmed fish, using Norwegian Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) as an example. The salmon is widely consumed and highly traded due to the rapid development of aquaculture. Norway, which has been successful in regulating and innovating for sustainable aquaculture, accounts for more than half of world production. A model dealing with pass-through of exchange rates and tariff rates based on the exporter’s profit maximization was applied to 28 major countries importing from Norway, using yearly panel data for 2000–2016. Significant evidence of price discrimination was observed in Asian countries where Norway has a high market share, such as China, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. This implies that the market structure of imperfect competition played a major role, suggesting the need to diversify imports to transform the market structure in favor of consumers in Asian countries. Research on the pricing behavior of fisheries products, including cultured fish, is limited in international trade. This paper addresses the gap by applying the pass-through model with changes in tariff rate as well as exchange rate. Full article
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