Land Resources and Agricultural Exports Nexus

Harun Uçak, Çelik Saliha () and Kurt Hakan ()
Additional contact information
Çelik Saliha: Department of International Trade, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey
Kurt Hakan: Department of Economics, Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Alanya, Turkey

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2023, vol. 23, issue 1, 284-300

Abstract: Research background As part of the process of structural transformation that countries go through in their development journey, the relative significance of agriculture as a sector typically shrinks over time. Nonetheless, the agricultural sector maintains its significance in terms of its trade potential and global employment prospects to this day. The extant literature largely neglects the impact of countries’ land resources on agricultural trade by emphasizing agricultural farm size and land productivity nexus. This justifies the exploration of the causal nexus between countries’ agricultural land resources and their agricultural exports. Purpose The study herein aims at investigating the nexus between countries’ total agricultural land resources and agricultural exports for 174 selected countries over the period 1991–2019. Research methodology Dumitrescu and Hurlin’s (2012) test for Granger non-causality for heterogeneous panels is harnessed. Results Estimation results evidence the presence of bi-directional causality (feedback) between countries’ agricultural land resources and agricultural exports not only in the whole panel (1991–2019) but also in subpanels too (1991–2000, 2001–2010, and 2011–2019). Overall, the results stress the strategic importance of agricultural land as a significant determinant of agricultural exports. Novelty Our study takes a unique approach and investigates if there is a cause-and-effect relationship between a country’s agricultural land resources and its agricultural exports by relying on the implications of the factor endowment theory of trade.

Keywords: Agricultural Exports; Land Resources; Factor Endowment; Panel Data Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 F10 Q15 Q17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/foli-2023-0015 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:foeste:v:23:y:2023:i:1:p:284-300:n:11

DOI: 10.2478/foli-2023-0015

Access Statistics for this article

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia is currently edited by Waldemar Tarczyński

More articles in Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().