A method for estimating global trade in value added within agriculture and food value chains

Jared Greenville, Kentaro Kawasaki and Raphaël Beaujeu
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No 99, OECD Food, Agriculture and Fisheries Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: Global Value Chains (GVCs) have transformed production across a broad range of goods and services worldwide. Although the development of GVCs has occurred in agro-food sectors alongside other sectors, less is known about the trade that occurs within agro-food GVCs due to limited information on flows of trade in value added. This study develops an approach to calculate disaggregated indicators of GVC participation in agro-food sectors in both developed and developing countries. Specifically, the approach exploits the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database to construct an inter-country input-output (ICIO) table for the year 2011. The resulting ICIO is used to compute indicators of GVC participation based on the concept of vertical specialisation – forward and backward participation – across 20 agro-food sectors in 70 countries and/or regions. Estimates of domestic value added in exports and final demand or agro-food products, including the contribution of all industries, are also presented.

Keywords: agriculture; global value chains; GTAP; multi-regional input output (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F60 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-02-27
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