Trends in world agricultural exports

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Trends in world agricultural exports. The availability of food within a specific country can be guaranteed in two ways: Either by food production in the country itself or by trade. The first option has been discussed extensively in the previous chapters. The second option has become more and more important (Figure 29), with increasing transport possibilities and storing capacities and the growing challenges faced by some countries in their domestic production, including because of limitations in available cropland. International trade in agricultural products has expanded more rapidly than global agricultural GDP (FAO, 2005).

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Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2005. The State of Food and Agriculture 2005: Agricultural Trade and Poverty. Can the Poor Benefit from Trade. Rome: UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

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The Environmental Food Crisis - The Environment's Role in Averting Future Food Crises

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2009

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