The Russia-Ukraine war: Implications for global and regional food security and potential policy responses
An Analysis of the Impact of International R&D Spillovers and Technology Innovation in China
To test the impact of international R&D spillovers on China’s technological innovation, we collect and use province-country-level data from 23 provinces from 2001 to 2020 to fill a measurement gap of international R&D spillovers, so that our measurement can avoid ‘aggregation bias’ unlike the calculation methods in previous studies. We find that im...
Empirical impact of China-Pak business cycle synchronization on environmental degradation in Pakistan
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
This study investigates the empirical impact of China-Pak business cycle synchronization, urbanization, foreign direct investment, exports, and imports on environmental degradation in Pakistan from 1975 to 2017. In doing so, we use the Hodrick-Prescott filter to obtain the trend component of GDP. Then the trend component is subtracted from the orig...
Amfory w ekspozycji Muzeum Archeologicznego w Murcji (Hiszpania) / Amphorae in the Exhibition of the Archaeological Muse...
This article deals with ancient amphorae in the exhibition of the Archaeological Museum of Murcia (Spain). So far, the amphorae have only had inventory cards and there has been no typological-chronological study of them. Each of the 8 amphorae is a different type and purpose. These are finds from various locations in the Region of Murcia. The aim o...
Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s rivers and streams (Figure 1) and its ground water potential of 2.6 billion m3 of groundwater potential (Awulachew et al., 2008) is estimated to have a potential to irrigate 5.3 million hectares of land. So far, less than 5 percent of the potentially irrigable land is currently irrigated, exposing the country’s agriculture to the vagarie...
Thriving or Surviving in the Energy Industry: Lessons on Energy Production from the European Economies
The energy industry has a major impact on the sustainability level of global economies, from job creation to resource efficiency and environmental impact. The aim of our study was to examine the phenomenon of energy production and its main determinants in 37 European economies during the period of 2011–2021. The methodological approach entailed the...
The Effects of Imports and Economic Growth in Chinese Economy: A Granger Causality Approach under VAR Framework
This study inspects the association between economic growth and imports from China, based on data sourced from 2000 to 2021. For this reason, a quantitative research approach is used to determine the causality between the variables and their impact on the economy. The null hypothesis of the paper implies that the import growth rate has a significan...
What Drives Economic Growth across European Countries? A Multimodal Approach
This research study examines the factors that determined economic growth measured by gross domestic product, gross value added, final consumption expenditure of households, and gross fixed capital formation across a sample of 36 European countries during the time frame Q3 2018−Q3 2021. We conducted a panel data analysis with the first-difference ge...
Broiler production systems in Ghana: economics and the impact of frozen chicken imports
Published in International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Chicken meat consumption in Ghana has significantly increased in the last two decades. However, production has stagnated, and domestic producers are struggling to satisfy the local market. Consequently, Ghana is dependent on chicken imports. The imports have attracted criticism as they are believed to be negatively affecting producers. This paper u...
A food systems approach and qualitative system dynamics model to reveal policy issues within the commercial broiler chic...
Global broiler production and consumption levels continue to rise. South Africa’s broiler system is dominated by commercial production and formal retail trade, with competition from cheap imports. Local broiler policies have narrow, production-driven, short-term aims for industry growth and national food security. However, these have unintended con...
