557 research outputs found
David Laborde Debucquet "The African Continental Free Trade Area: How will economic distribution change?"
No full textDavid Laborde Debucquet POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - The African Continental Free Trade Area: How will economic distribution change? DEC 15, 2020 - 09:30 AM TO 10:45 AM ES
Food and nutrition security in 2050 some lessons from the foodsecure project
No full textDavid Laborde Debucquet IFPRI POLICY SEMINAR Visioning the future of Food Security January 18, 201
Agriculture, development, and the global trading system: 2000 2015
No full textDavid Laborde Debucquet BOOK LAUNCH "Agriculture, Development, and the Global Trading System: 2000-2015" SEP 7, 2017 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM ED
Eight years of Doha trade talks
Full text linkIn 2001, the World Trade Organization launched a highly ambitious program of multilateral liberalization. Eight years later, concluding the negotiations is uncertain, though an opportunity still exists. Since 2001, many proposals on market access have been brought to the negotiating table by the E.U., the United States, and the G-20. Because it is politically and economically acceptable to many parties, the final December 2008 package could be the basis of an agreement. An evaluation of these various proposals shows how trade negotiations have been following countries’ strategic interests. In eight years, the ambition of the formula to reduce agricultural market access tariffs has increased, but flexibilities added to accommodate domestic political constraints have offset delivered market access. The December 2008 package would reduce these average tariffs by 25 percent, a reduction very close to the one implied by the Harbinson and Girard proposals of 2003. This has to be compared with the 73 percent reduction in world agricultural protection by the very ambitious 2005 U.S. proposal. The 2005 G-20 and E.U. proposals were intermediate outcomes. The December 2008 package implies a reduction of agricultural protection by 6 percentage points in high-income countries and 0.5 percentage points in middle-income countries. If the U.S. proposal had been applied, these figures would have been 12.4 and 4.7, respectively. Different scenarios imply losses for developing countries, reflecting eroding preferences and rising terms of trade for imported commodities, including food products. We study how this trade reform can be more development-friendly.Computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling, Developing countries, Trade negotiations, WTO Doha round,
Food security in LDCs: a challenge for WTO
No full textJoseph Glauber, David Laborde Debucquet, and Valeria Piñeiro CONFERENCE Food security in Least Developed Countries: a challenge for WTO SEP 26, 2022 - 9:00AM TO 1:00PM ED
The tide that does not raise all boats: an assessment of EU preferential trade policies
No full textThe aim of this article is to assess the impact of the European Union’s trade preferences on bilateral trade flows. Using highly disaggregated 8-digit import data in a theoretically grounded gravity model framework, we define an explicit measure of preferential tariff margins and use that to estimate sector-specific elasticities. From the methodological point of view, we show that the assessment of these policies’ impacts is very sensitive to the definition of the preferential tariff margin. An important by-product of our procedures is that they can be used to obtain estimates of trade elasticities of substitution, some of the most important parameters in the international trade empirical literature. Results show that actual preferential schemes or possible future policies, such as the transatlantic trade agreement between the USA and the EU (TTIP), have a significant impact on trade volumes, with large differences across sectors
Strategies for adapting to climate change in rural Sub-Saharan Africa
Full text linkThe ten ASARECA member countries (Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda) have adopted, or are planning to adopt, a range of climate change adaptation strategies in agriculture (see Table 1 for a summary). Of the 26 strategies mentioned, only two are common to all 10 countries, while five more are common to five or more. The strategies common to all member countries include the development and promotion of drought-tolerant and early-maturing crop species and exploitation of new and renewable energy sources. Most countries have areas that are classifiable as arid or semiarid, hence the need to develop drought-tolerant and early-maturing crops. Strangely, only one country recognizes the conservation of genetic resources as an important strategy although this is also potentially important for dealing with drought. Biomass energy resources account for more than 70 percent of total energy consumption in ASARECA member countries. To mitigate the potential adverse effects of biomass energy depletion, ASARECA countries plan to harness new and renewable energy sources, including solar power, wind power, hydro and geothermal sources, and biofuels. Eight of the 10 countries cite the promotion of rainwater harvesting as an important adaptation strategy, either small scale with small check dams or large scale with large dam projects. The five measures that are common to more than five countries are (a) the conservation and restoration of vegetative cover in degraded and mountain areas; (b) reduction of overall livestock numbers through sale or slaughter; (c) cross-breeding, zero-grazing, and acquisition of smaller livestock (for example, sheep or goats); (d) adoption of traditional methods of natural forest conservation and food use; and (e) community-based management programs for forests, rangelands, and national parks. The promotion of environmentally friendly investments and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects that can be funded through carbon trading is a feature of only one country. Three examples of strategies that warrant greater region wide collaboration are the conservation of genetic materials, development and promotion of drought-tolerant species, and soil conservation. To date, the national adaptation policies of only three countries have indicated that they carry out these strategies.Adaptation, ASARECA, Climate change, NAPA, Natural resource management, PRSP,
Virtual Event - COVID-19: Implications for Global and Country-Level Food Security, Nutrition, and Poverty
No full textJohan Swinnen, David Laborde Debucquet, Xiaobo Zhang, Purnima Menon, and James Thurlow POLICY SEMINAR Virtual Event - COVID-19: Implications for Global and Country-Level Food Security, Nutrition, and Poverty APR 14, 2020 - 12:15 PM TO 01:15 PM ED
Trade for Secure, Diverse and Sustainable Nutrition: Key Messages from the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2020 Event
No full textValeria Piñeiro, Friedrich Wacker, Markus Brill, David Laborde Debucquet, Martien van Nieuwkoop, and Johan Swinnen POLICY SEMINAR Trade for Secure, Diverse and Sustainable Nutrition: Key Messages from the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) 2020 Event Co-Organized by IFPRI and the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States JAN 30, 2020 - 12:15 PM TO 01:45 PM ES
Critical food and fertilizer price increase and its impact on smallholder farmers in Africa.pdf
No full textDavid Laborde TICAD 8 August 26th, 202
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