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World Trade in Agricultural Products: from Global Regulation to Market Fragmentation

In: The International Farm Crisis

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  • Laurence Tubiana

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From the mid-1960s, the development of agricultural trade between the North and South led to a decisive collapse of the traditional colonial models of the division of labour. The increasing complexity of trade patterns has destroyed the old systems of ‘imperial preference’: what F. Braudel termed ‘les Economies-monde’, have been incorporated into the world economy. The traditional role of the South — low-cost provision of agricultural raw materials to the industrialized nations — is no longer of decisive importance to trade flows and to the world economic system. Indeed, we have witnessed a significant reversal in these flows. Today the countries of the South are increasingly the major customers for the surplus agricultural products, both processed and unprocessed, exported by the advanced economies. According to a recent study by the OECD, the developed nations now account for more than 65 per cent of world agricultural exports.

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  • Laurence Tubiana, 1989. "World Trade in Agricultural Products: from Global Regulation to Market Fragmentation," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: David Goodman & Michael Redclift (ed.), The International Farm Crisis, chapter 2, pages 23-45, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-10332-4_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-10332-4_2
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    Cited by:

    1. Philip McMichael & David Myhre, 1990. "Global Regulation vs. the Nation-State: Agro-Food Systems and the New Politics of Capital," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 22(1), pages 59-77, March.
    2. McMichael, Philip, 2000. "A Global Interpretation of the Rise of the East Asian Food Import Complex," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 28(3), pages 409-424, March.

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