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Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity

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  • Farid Farrokhi
  • Heitor S. Pellegrina

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We examine the contribution of trade to the rise of modern agriculture, taking into account interactions between trade, input requirements, and technology adoption. We develop and estimate a new multicountry general equilibrium model that incorporates producers’ choices of which crops to produce and with which technologies at the level of grid cells covering the earth’s surface. We find that trade cost reductions in agricultural inputs and the international transmission of productivity growth in the agricultural input sector since the 1980s induced large shifts from traditional, labor-intensive technologies to modern, input-intensive ones, with important global and distributional implications for productivity and welfare.

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  • Farid Farrokhi & Heitor S. Pellegrina, 2023. "Trade, Technology, and Agricultural Productivity," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 131(9), pages 2509-2555.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/724319
    DOI: 10.1086/724319
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    1. Siewers, Samuel, 2025. "The (other) China shock and the Brazilian soy boom: Cui bono?," University of Göttingen Working Papers in Economics 437, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.
    2. Farid Farrokhi & Elliot Kang & Heitor S. Pellegrina & Sebastian Sotelo, 2025. "Deforestation: A Global and Dynamic Perspective," Working Papers 209, Peruvian Economic Association.
    3. Corrêa-Dias, Lucas & Norris, Jordan & Pellegrina, Heitor, 2024. "Diet, Economic Development and Climate Change," OSF Preprints 3dv4z, Center for Open Science.
    4. Farrokhi, Farid & Lashkaripour, Ahmad & Pellegrina, Heitor S., 2024. "Trade and technology adoption in distorted economies," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
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    6. Stephan Heblich & Stephen J. Redding & Yanos Zylberberg, 2024. "The Distributional Consequences of Trade: Evidence from the Grain Invasion," Working Papers 337, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies..
    7. repec:osf:osfxxx:3dv4z_v1 is not listed on IDEAS
    8. Patrícia Batistella & Luan Marca & Fernanda Castilhos França de Vasconcellos & Eduardo Rodrigues Sanguinet & Augusto Mussi Alvim & Adelar Fochezatto, 2025. "Determinants of agricultural employment during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial analysis of Brazilian municipalities," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(1), pages 1-25, January.

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