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Successive Association Agreements between the EU and its Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPCs) aimed mostly at fostering trade liberalization. The analysis of agricultural trade flows between both areas has been traditionally approached according to geographical proximity and political relations via quantitative trade models. Available evidence reveals serious difficulties to conduct thorough analysis with the mentioned models. An alternative analytical avenue would be the use of qualitative approaches linked to Global Value Chain analysis. This book focuses on analyzing the buyer side of...

Quantitative models are necessary tools to represent the extremely complex interrelationships between agricultural activities and their environmental and socioeconomic consequences. It is a well-established fact that reactions to policy intervention on bio-natural and socioeconomic structures are rarely satisfactorily explainable or predictable on the basis of simple intellectual constructions. This contribution provides a review and assessment of different types of applied modeling allowing for informed discussion. A global framework is drawn up for market structures and policy...