The AfCFTA impact on agricultural and food trade: a value added perspective

The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement will create the largest single market in the world in terms of the number of countries and people. We analyse the effects of regional trade liberalisation on production fragmentation and networks using a global computable general equilibrium model ad...

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Autores principales: Fusacchia, Ilaria, Balié, Jean, Salvatici, Luca
Formato: Journal Article
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164179
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author Fusacchia, Ilaria
Balié, Jean
Salvatici, Luca
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description The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement will create the largest single market in the world in terms of the number of countries and people. We analyse the effects of regional trade liberalisation on production fragmentation and networks using a global computable general equilibrium model adapted to take into account the value-added structure of international trade. This permits the analysis of the impact of trade policies in the presence of global upstream and downstream linkages through a counterfactual analysis. The analysis goes beyond previous studies by focusing on member countries’ agricultural and food integration in regional and global value chains through backward and forward linkages. Our simulation results suggest that the agreement could have a significant impact on trade patterns in terms of value-added structure and extra- or intra-regional destinations. The reduction in trade costs within the region has a higher incidence on agriculture and food backward intra-regional integration than on forward participation, but this pattern varies substantially across countries. We find that the continental agreement translates in more widely spread benefits across sectors if we consider the income generated within each sector (value added) rather than simply accounting for gross exports.
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spelling CGSpace1641792024-12-22T05:44:55Z The AfCFTA impact on agricultural and food trade: a value added perspective Fusacchia, Ilaria Balié, Jean Salvatici, Luca economics and econometrics agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous) The African Continental Free Trade Area agreement will create the largest single market in the world in terms of the number of countries and people. We analyse the effects of regional trade liberalisation on production fragmentation and networks using a global computable general equilibrium model adapted to take into account the value-added structure of international trade. This permits the analysis of the impact of trade policies in the presence of global upstream and downstream linkages through a counterfactual analysis. The analysis goes beyond previous studies by focusing on member countries’ agricultural and food integration in regional and global value chains through backward and forward linkages. Our simulation results suggest that the agreement could have a significant impact on trade patterns in terms of value-added structure and extra- or intra-regional destinations. The reduction in trade costs within the region has a higher incidence on agriculture and food backward intra-regional integration than on forward participation, but this pattern varies substantially across countries. We find that the continental agreement translates in more widely spread benefits across sectors if we consider the income generated within each sector (value added) rather than simply accounting for gross exports. 2022-01-10 2024-12-19T12:53:35Z 2024-12-19T12:53:35Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164179 en Open Access Oxford University Press Fusacchia, Ilaria; Balié, Jean and Salvatici, Luca. 2022. The AfCFTA impact on agricultural and food trade: a value added perspective. European Review of Agricultural Economics, Volume 49 no. 1 p. 237-284
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The AfCFTA impact on agricultural and food trade: a value added perspective
title The AfCFTA impact on agricultural and food trade: a value added perspective
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topic economics and econometrics
agricultural and biological sciences (miscellaneous)
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/164179
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