AGRICISTRADE

As of 2014 the agricultural and food trade between the EU and the successor states of the former Soviet Union seems to be expanding rapidly. The ambition of this project is to accompany this development by analyzing the potential impact of recently concluded free trade agreements and by delivering insights on the potential developments of the food, feed and biomass sectors.

The project has four objectives: (1) to improve our understanding of agri-food sector performance, (2) to better understand the causes of untapped agricultural production potentials and suggest pathways for improvement, (3) to explore developments in agricultural supply chains, and (4) to enhance the analytical framework for future assessments of developments in agri-food potential and trade. The work is organized in eight work packages.

IAMO is particularly responsible for WP4, where the performance of selected supply chains (e.g. cereals and meat) will be evaluated and the main factors that constrain their economic performance will be identified. The project will incorporate developments since 2014 in its analyses.

• Consortium Leader/Coordination:  EUROQUALITY, France
• Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (KIS), Slovenia
• Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics (LAEI), Lithuania
• Thünen Institute, Germany
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
• Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) of the EU Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Spain
• International Center for Agribusiness Research and Education (ICARE), Armenia
• Azerbaijan Scientific Research Institute of Economy and Organization of Agriculture (IEOA), Azerbaijan
• Research Center of the Institute for Privatization and Management (IPM), Belarus
• Georgian Center for Agribusiness Development (GCAD), Georgia
• Analytical Center of Economic Policy in the Agricultural Sector (ACEPAS), Kazakhstan
• Institute of Economy, Finance and Statistics (IEFS), Moldova
• Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), Russian Federation
• Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER), Ukraine
• University of Ljubljana (UL), Slovenia

• 7th Framework Programme for Research of the European Union