Tinoush Jamali Jaghdani

Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO) · Department of Agricultural Markets

Physical availability and adequate distribution of irrigation water are two globally pressing resource management issues. In the long run, the design of irrigation infrastructure should be based on the economic value of irrigation water, taking into account a full analysis of all associated costs and benefits. In the absence of water markets, non-m...

Market-based water allocation systems have the potential to ensure that scarce water will flow to the user who earns the highest marginal value from that water. However, the number of recorded instances where water supply problems are solved by market-based systems remains limited. This study attempts to identify the decisive factors that motivate...

Food price volatility has re-emerged as an important topic of political discussion since the food price crisis of 2007–2008. Different volatility drivers have been identified for different markets in the theoretical and empirical literature. However, there is no comprehensive analysis that considers a large number of potential drivers and investiga...

This study highlights the methodological challenges in determining the value of water in informal water markets. As the decision to participate in water markets is unlikely to be random, self-selectivity is an important issue for an unbiased estimation of the participating farmers’ revealed willingness to pay. The relevance of these issues is illus...

The focus of this paper is on the analysis of market imperfections in the French and U.K. wheat value chains. We used mark-up and mark-down models and stochastic frontier analysis to estimate the degree of market imperfections in two completely different wheat-to-bread chains for two stages/sectors—milling and baking. Our results reveal some degree...

The duration models are tools to understand the persistency in trade market structure for specific commodities and countries. Any decision on entering to trade market can be made easier by knowing the persistency of trade between partners. This study focuses on salmon supply chain relation histories in order to analyse persistence, and thus sustain...

Red meat plays an essential role in Iranian cuisine, both as a source of protein and as an integral component in eating behaviours based on religious and cultural factors. Economic challenges, including high inflation and low incomes, have affected red meat consumption in Iran in the last decade. In early 2019, the sharp jump in red meat prices led...

The war in Ukraine has aggravated existing tensions on the agricultural commodities market. Since late 2021, prices for commodities such as grains and vegetable oils have reached record highs, surpassing even the levels of the global food price crises of more than a decade ago. Now, the invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine has sent prices soaring...

The war in Ukraine has aggravated existing tensions on the agricultural commodities market. Since late 2021, prices for commodities such as grains and vegetable oils have reached record highs, surpassing even the levels of the global food price crises of more than a decade ago. Now, the invasion of Russian forces in Ukraine has sent prices soaring...

Der Ukrainekrieg offenbart angespannte Versorgungslagen auf Weltagrarmärkten: Gefordert sind wettbewerblich agierende globale Handelsstrukturen zur Krisen-bewältigung¹ Der Krieg in der Ukraine hat die seit zwei Jahren bestehende an-gespannte Versorgungslage auf den internationalen Agrarroh-stoffmärkten nochmals verstärkt. Die Preise für Agrarrohsto...

Upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, the bells started to ring in international agricultural and food markets. The war has the basic potential to threaten the international food security in short-run and medium-run in three different domains. These domains are supply shortages of basic staple commodities such as wheat and cor...

System dynamics and agent-based simulation modelling approaches have a potential as tools to evaluate the impact of policy related decision making in food value chains. The context is that a food value chain involves flows of multiple products, financial flows and decision making among the food value chain players. Each decision may be viewed from...

Task 5.4 Persistence of supply chain relations (M24-34) Lead partner: IAMO; Task members: All partners leading a case study This task focuses on chain relation histories in order to analyse persistence, and thus sustainability and its determinants of business/trade relationships along the selected food supply chains. The market entry and exit of a...

The cultivation of saffron, which is one of the most expensive agricultural products in the world, is the main source of livelihood and economic wellbeing for the rural communities of Gona-bad county in the eastern part of Iran. Nevertheless, farm monitoring in the region has shown that many saffron growers apply a high-density planting system for...

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the top destination for Russian food exports, grains in particular. Focusing on Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, this chapter shows that Russia’s food trade with MENA countries is strongly affected by bilateral political relations. Russia banned most food imports from Turkey over a political c...

Russia’s food policy has been defined by the quest for food security for more than a decade, which in the Russian context includes import protectionism, self-sufficiency, and import substitution, marked by the adoption of Food Security Doctrines in 2010 and 2020. This chapter first investigates the impact of food security policy on domestic product...

Many different events happened in 2014 that affected Russia's domestic markets. Among different dairy products, cheese has been the one for which domestic production has significantly increased and cheese import decreased since the summer of 2014. This paper aims to explore the effects of trade policies and other macroeconomic changes in 2014 on ch...

Link here: https://www.uni-marburg.de/en/cnms/middle-east-economics/research/projects/nadima/academic-event/nadima-dialogue-11

Unchecked food price volatility can have significant consequences for people's livelihoods and well-being in terms of food security, rural development and political stability. Understanding the factors behind this phenomenon holds particular concern for producers, consumers, and policy-makers, who face the adverse effects of agricultural market sho...

The original version of the book was inadvertently published with an incorrect sentence in chapter “The Energy-Water Nexus in Iran: The Political Economy of Energy Subsidies for Groundwater Pumping”. The sentence has been corrected now as in given below: The correction chapter and the book have been updated with changes. From: “Moazedi et al. (20...

The depletion of groundwater resources due to irrigation water pumping in Iran has become a serious problem that threatens both rural life and sustainable development in the country. The latest estimates show that 70% of groundwater resources have been overexploited over the last 15 years. The number of deep and shallow wells used for groundwater i...

The aim of this report is to provide insights into price dynamics and power relationships between actors of selected Food Value Chains (FVC). Following the main focus of the VALUMICS project, provided analysis refers to salmon, tomato, dairy and wheat case studies in selected EU and non-EU countries. The analysis presented in this deliverable great...

The overall objective of the VALUMICS project is to produce a comprehensive suite of approaches and tools that will enable decision makers to evaluate the impact of strategic and operational policies on resilience, integrity and sustainability of European food value chains. GOALS: This report presents the results from Task 4.4 - information and ma...

The increase in demand for salmon internationally and limited production possibility of that in specific regions of the world increase the concern of lower market competitiveness in this industry. However, as the concentration in the international distribution of salmon has increased simultaneously on the side of other actors of the global value ch...

The paper focuses on the analysis of market imperfections in the Italian tomato food chain. The identification of the degree of non-competitive behaviour is based on the derived mark-down and mark-up model and using the latest developments in stochastic frontier methodology. The estimated models reveal some degree of non-competitive behaviour in th...

Full report here: https://valumics.eu/outcomes/ https://zenodo.org/record/5188542#.YSTak99CRpg

This is a part of following VALUMICS report: Barling, D., Sharpe, R., Gresham, J., Mylona, K. (2018). Characterisation framework of key policy, regulatory and governance dynamics and impacts upon European food value chains: Fairer trading practices, food integrity, and sustainability collaborations. The VALUMICS project “Understanding Food Value Ch...

Die seit einigen Jahren von der russischen Regierung verfolgte Substitutionspolitik bei Agrarimporten, wel - che 2014 in die Lebensmittelsanktionen gegenüber den westlichen Ländern gipfelte, vermochte zwar die Entwicklung des Schweinefleischsektors in Russland zu forcieren, konnte jedoch keine Dynamik im Milch - sektor katalysieren. Die Persistenz...

The depletion of groundwater resources due to irrigation water pumping in Iran has become a serious problem which threatens both rural life and sustainable development in the country. The latest estimates show that 70% of groundwater resources have been overexploited in the last 15 years. Intensive and ever-increasing use has become one of the prim...

We study the effects of Russia s food import ban implemented in August of 2014 on the Russian dairy market based on the price transmission and price dispersion approach. Cheese is the only dairy product for which domestic production has significantly increased since the implementation of the import ban whereas cheese imports have strongly decreased...

The pork sector has been at the centre of Russi a’s agricultural import substitution policy which was initiated i n 2004 with the introduction of a pork import tax . In the aftermath of Russia’s WTO access in 2012, the Russian government restricted pork imports rather by non - tariff barriers, especially th e food import ban , which was implemented...

The pork sector has been at the centre of Russia’s import substitution policy which successfully has increased Russia’s pork self-sufficiency to 88% in the last years. However, this policy is facing several challenges. Results of a DCC-MGARCH model confirm our hypothesis that price volatility and thus risk have increased strongly in the pork supply...

The pork sector has been at the centre of Russia’s import substitution policy. It has shown a very dynamic development reaching the government’s aim to increase self-sufficiency to 85% in 2015. However, this policy is facing several challenges. Results of a DCC-MGARCH model confirm our hypothesis that price volatility and thus risk have increased s...

Iran is suffering from groundwater resources depletion through the excessive subsided electricity for water pumping and the resulting disproportionate water consumption in agriculture. Creation an alternative income sources for farmers and elimination of heavy subsidies for groundwater pumping simultaneously is a possible option for dealing with th...

The depletion of groundwater resources due to irrigation water pumping in Iran has become a serious problem which threatens both rural life and sustainable development in the country. The latest estimates show that 70% of groundwater resources have been overexploited in the last 15 years. In 2015, the use of groundwater for irrigation expanded to i...

In 2013, the EBRD and FAO launched a multi-country project to improve water efficiency in selected agricultural value chains. The project aimed at providing analytical support to improve the environmental impact of EBRD agribusiness investments and inform policy-makers on sustainable paths for specific value chains in Turkey, Jordan, Ukraine and th...

In this chapter, we assess the development of price volatility in major agricultural markets over the past years. We base this analysis on univariate GARCH models for the commodities under consideration, and then analyse these estimated volatilities further with a specific focus on spillovers between closely related agricultural markets. These vola...

In this chapter we present a literature review of the agricultural and food price volatility patterns as observed over the last decade. We focus on studies published in peer-reviewed journals but also include a selected number of working papers, policy briefs, and discussion papers ('grey literature') from international organisations or research in...

Die Agrarexporte nach Russland sind eingebrochen. Neue Absatzchancen eröffnen sich hingegen im Iran, denn sowohl nach verarbeiteten Lebensmitteln als auch nach Rohwaren und Futtermitteln steigt die Nachfrage. Quelle: http://dlg-mitteilungen.de/rubriken/heftausgabe/p/e-magazin-7/ Translation in English: http://www.agrifuture.com/fileadmin/agrifutur...

In this study we present the historical trend of energy prices in agriculture and non-agricultural sectors in Iran. The number of wells and general groundwater depletion are also presented for the same period. The comparison of the development of agricultural products prices and energy prices shows the distance of this pricing system from full cost...

http://dev2.wageningenur.nl/en/activity/foodconference.htm

http://projects.iamo.de/fileadmin/veranstaltungen/iamo_forum/2014/D1_1_Kristina_Schluessler.pdf

Understanding the economic value of water can inform decision makers of the full social benefits and costs of water use, which is of particular importance in agriculture with its huge and often heavily subsidised water use. In the few available irrigation water markets, the price that is paid for an extra unit of irrigation water reflects the willi...

This dissertation is divided to three essays that summarise groundwater demand studies in pistachio production of the Rafsanjan aquifer in southeastern Iran from three different methodological approaches. It is said that groundwater is the world's most extracted raw material, but its use and management have yet to be fully quantified. The work cove...

Depletion of groundwater resources is an international problem, and groundwater is probably the world’s most extracted raw material. The agriculture sector is one of the biggest users of groundwater resources for irrigation activities and plays an important role in the depletion of these resources. Up to now, the main focus of economic studies on g...

Water markets have been proposed as a tool for dealing with water scarcity and have been justified by emphasising their efficiency. Market-based allocation systems have the potential to ensure that the scarce water will flow to the user who earns the highest marginal value from the water. However, the number of recorded instances where water supply...

Depletion of groundwater resources is an international problem, and groundwater is probably the world’s most extracted raw material. The agriculture sector is one of the biggest users of groundwater resources for irrigation activities, and it plays an important role in the depletion of these resources. The estimation of demand function for groundwa...

http://www.tropentag.de/2009/abstracts/full/808.pdf