Global agri-food trade gross and value added exports

What is it about?

The paper is the first attempt to analyse the global agri-food competitiveness through the lens of value added exports data. We assess the competitiveness of agri-food trade in 61 countries.

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Why is it important?

We expands the assessment of export performance in two important dimensions. First. it moves beyond measuring export performance based on gross exports by also calculating measures based on the domestic value added in foreign final demand. Second, we analyze systematically the differences between the two measures over the complete distribution of agricultural and food exports separately.