International trade of GMO-related agricultural products

Vargas Meza Xanat, Ke Jiang, George A. Barnett and Han Woo Park ()
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Vargas Meza Xanat: University of Tsukuba
Ke Jiang: University of California
George A. Barnett: University of California
Han Woo Park: Yeungnam University

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2018, vol. 52, issue 2, No 5, 565-587

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the international trade of a variety of genetically modified (GM) food products over a 27-year period (1984–2011) with data from the United Nations using the tools of social network analysis. The results indicate that each of the different crops have a distinctive pattern of trade that has changed over time due to a number of different factors. Also, trade in agricultural commodities became more diversified over time, dominated less by the United States and other nations central in the trade networks and trade in the individual GM crops was stable over time. Countries maintained their trading partners for specific crops, despite the adoption of the genetically modified varieties. The economic implications of these results are discussed for specific countries.

Keywords: Genetically modified foods; International trade; Social network analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-017-0521-8

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