Overview of Existing Agricultural Trade Models and Modeling Efforts

International Relations/Trade,

TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. LINKING A PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM TRADE MODEL WITH PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES

This paper was presented at the INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS SYMPOSIUM in Auckland, New Zealand, January 18-19, 2001. The Symposium was sponsored by: the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, the Venture Trust, Massey University, New Zealand, and the Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Studies, Massey University. Dietary changes, especially in developing countries, are driving a massive increase in demand for livestock products. The objective of this symposium was to examine the consequences of this phenomenon, which some have even called a "revolution." How are dietary patterns changing, and can increased demands for livestock products be satisfied from domestic resources? If so, at what cost? What will be the flow-on impacts, for example, in terms of increased demands for feedgrains and the pressures for change within marketing systems? A supply-side response has been the continued development of large-scale, urban-based industrial livestock production systems that in many cases give rise to environmental concerns. If additional imports seem required, where will they originate and what about food security in the importing regions? How might market access conditions be re-negotiated to make increased imports achievable? Other important issues discussed involved food safety, animal health and welfare and the adoption of biotechnology, and their interactions with the negotiation of reforms to domestic and trade policies. Individual papers from this conference are available on AgEcon Search. If you would like to see the complete agenda and set of papers from this conference, please visit the IATRC Symposium web page at: http://www1.umn.edu/iatrc.intro.htmInternational Relations/Trade, Environmental Economics and Policy, Production Economics,

Bringing Agriculture into the GATT: Assessing the Benefits of Trade Liberalization

International Relations/Trade,

Whither European Community Common Agricultural Policy, MacSharried, or Dunkeled in the GATT?

The Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has been deadlocked over disagreement between the European Community (EC) and other GATT members about policy reform in agriculture. Last July, Mr. MacSharry, the EC Agriculture Commissioner, proposed an internal reform of the EC Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Meanwhile, Mr. Dunkel of the GATT Secretariat has proposed a compromise GATT agreement that would reduce support to agriculture in the EC and other member countries. This paper summarizes these two proposals for agriculture and compares the effect of their implementation by the EC. The two proposals are then contrasted from an EC policy management viewpoint

Whither European Community Common Agricultural Policy, MacSharried, or Dunkeled in the GATT?

The Uruguay Round of trade negotiations in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) has been deadlocked over disagreement between the European Community (EC) and other GATT members about policy reform in agriculture. Last July, Mr. MacSharry, the EC Agriculture Commissioner, proposed an internal reform of the EC Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Meanwhile, Mr. Dunkel of the GATT Secretariat has proposed a compromise GATT agreement that would reduce support to agriculture in the EC and other member countries. This paper summarizes these two proposals for agriculture and compares the effect of their implementation by the EC. The two proposals are then contrasted from an EC policy management viewpoint.Agricultural and Food Policy, International Relations/Trade,

THE WORLD GRAIN-OILSEEDS-LIVESTOCK (GOL) MODEL, A SIMPLIFIED VERSION

This report presents a simplified version of the world grain-oilseeds-livestock (GOL) agricultural trade model. It describes the general characteristics of GOL, its product coverage, and its regional configuration. Specifications are given for a simple standard country model and for the world market clearing model. The report also describes the linkage mechanism which combines country models, regional models, and the world market clearing model to form a world system. It discusses the requirements for model simulations and the linkage of more detailed versions of country models to the global system