Trade, Agricultural Policies and Structural Changes in India's Agrifood System; Implications for National and Global Markets

Objective

The project offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of future developments in Indian supply, demand and trade for the main agricultural commodities as well as developments in the food value chain. Working tools are improved and used to evaluate the impact of trade and agricultural policies, structural changes on the Indian agrifood system as well as on world markets. More specifically, the project will include the following actions: • Design of an analytical framework for the analysis of future trade and agricultural policy developments (including trade agreements) on supply, demand and trade for the main agricultural commodities in India. Initial suggestions for analysis are cereals, pulses, vegetable oils, cotton, sugar, dairy, meat and fish, fruits and vegetables. • Identify the key processes of change in the Indian and global economy and their impacts on the agrifood sector of India. This serves as a basis for understanding future trends. • Update, test and improve modelling tools and value chain analysis that will be used as building blocks in this project. • Define indicators and develop databases for understanding and forecasting the impacts of policies on future developments of agriculture in India up to 2020. This will be done at regional and national levels, taking into account international trade. • Implementation of tools to simulate the impacts of domestic and international trade policy changes and structural changes in the agrifood sector on the Indian agricultural sectors as well as on world markets, with a specific focus on the EU. • Dissemination of our findings and interaction with the research and policy community, as well as the key stakeholders in the agrifood sector, both in India and the EU.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.

• agricultural sciences animal and dairy science dairy
• agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture fruit growing
• agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture vegetable growing
• agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture grains and oilseeds cereals
• social sciences economics and business business and management commerce

Keywords

Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)

• India
• agricultural commodities
• demand
• supply
• trade

Programme(s)

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• FP7-KBBE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology

Topic(s)

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• KBBE-2007-1-4-09 - Trade and agricultural policies - India

Call for proposal

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FP7-KBBE-2007-1
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Funding Scheme

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CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project

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