Building food security and resilience through intraregional trade in Latin America and the Caribbean
Intraregional agrifood trade in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) offers untapped opportunities for expansion.
Intraregional agrifood trade in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) offers untapped opportunities for expansion.
This paper uses comprehensive and long time series monthly food price data and a panel dyadic regression framework to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated policy responses on spatial market integration across a diverse set o
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