HLTH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 63: Least Developed Countries, United Nations Conference On Trade And Development, Ecosystem Services
19 Nov 2018
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Slide 15: environmental impacts of modern food production go well beyond climate. Slide 16: global food trade has uneven effects, with the poorest countries deeply affected. Graph: agricultural trade balance of the least developed countries, 1961-2012. Export value (billion us$) is relatively low and stable, sitting below 5 until 2008 and rising up to. Import value (billion us$) is relatively low, sitting below 5 until 1991 and then increasing up to. Slide 17: food import dependence in the poorest countries. Canada has high surplus (0. 1 0. 5) Brazil has very high surplus (0. 5 1) Russia has high deficit (-0. 5 -0. 1) Some countries in africa have very high deficit (-1 -0. 5) Source: unctad (2014) key statistics and trends in international trade. Slide 18: significant embodied carbon emissions in highly traded agricultural commodities. Co2 emissions embodied in commodities traded across continents for selected producer countries, 2000-2009. Ex: brazil trading beef to caribbean, united stated, european union (most), mid east/ north.
