Bilateral Trade and Food Security
Brooks, Douglas H.; Ferrarini, Benno; Go, Eugenia C. | September 2013
Abstract
We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers’ exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on another for food imports. Food trade maps are drawn by the application of a force-directed algorithm that sorts through computed BIPIs and maps the nodes corresponding to the strength of bilateral ties between country pairs, thereby showing importers’ vulnerabilities to disruptions in bilateral channels. Results suggest that measures aimed at diversifying supply sources reduce vulnerability.
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Brooks, Douglas H.; Ferrarini, Benno; Go, Eugenia C.. 2013. Bilateral Trade and Food Security. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/2297. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5252
Keywords
Aquaculture Development
Development Economics
Export Development
Regional Development
Fishing Industry
Fishery Industry
Fishery development
Economic development
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