The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have shone a spotlight on the importance of adaption to climate change. However, progress in achieving SDG 12 which calls for, “responsible consumption and production” has been stalled by the unavailability of indicators that adequately capture and motivate increased responsible consumption. To fill this gap, this article presents an alternative indicator that makes use of cultivar characteristics and uses South African fresh peach and nectarine exports as a focus area.

This article is published in the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. The paper studies the impact of changes in Tunisia's exchange rate on the net external position of the agricultural sector. It shows that substitutability on production and consumption among domestically produced goods leads to an ambiguous impact for reasons that go beyond the Marshall-Lerner condition.

The objectives of this article published in Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies are to develop a partial equilibrium model for a dairy sector according to two approaches—“Quantity Formulation” and “Price Formulation”—and to show their equivalence under the assumption of perfect competition. We introduce the spatial dimension to present the“Price Formulation” approach of models developed by Bouamra et al. (1998) and Abbassi et al. (2008) .

Prof. Tabitha Kiriti-Nganga delivered a presentation on 41st regional course on key issues on the international economic agenda. The presentation covered:

• Kenya’s experience in economic development
• Attempts at diversifying its economic productive base
• Main challenges at diversifying
• Economic policies and reforms undertaken by the Government

This book is a timely and comprehensive analysis of the links between trade and food security, using available data as well as evidence from economic theory and history. It is an edited publication, drawing on expertise from senior staff at the WTO, a wide range of trade academics from both Asia and more widely, and the private sector (although the last possibly a little under represented given the importance of private traders and especially large corporations in the world food trading system).

This research funded by World Trade Organization Chair Program hosted by SQU, and done by Abdallah Akintola under the guidance of Dr Houcine Boughanmi, Dr. Hemesiri Kotagama and Dr. Lokman Zaibet, sought to explore the trade potential of Oman with the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) countries, focusing on both total trade and agricultural trade.

The Sixth Biennial conference on "International Economic Law in Unsettling Times" was organized by SIEL and hosted in American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. from July 12 – 14, 2018. The WTO Chair at FLACSO Argentina participated at the Panel “Interesting Times: “Trade and” the Future of the WTO? organized jointly by the Singapore, Mexican and Turkish WTO Chairs and supported by WTO Chairs’ Advisory Members Mark Wu and Henry Gao. Prof. Delich talked about Trade and Agri Standards: WTO as a Discipline for Fairness and Market Access.