How do countries specialize in food production? A complex network analysis of the global produce space
In the last years, there has been a growing interest in studying the global food system as a complex evolving network. Much of the literature has been focusing on the way countries are interconnected in the food system through international-trade linkages, and what consequences this may have in term...
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In the last years, there has been a growing interest in studying the global food system as a complex evolving network. Much of the literature has been focusing on the way countries are interconnected in the food system through international-trade linkages, and what consequences this may have in terms of food security and sustainability. Little attention has been instead devoted to understanding how countries, given their capabilities, specialize in agricultural production and to the determinants of country specialization patterns. In this paper, we start addressing this issue using FAO production data for the period 1993-2013. We characterize the food production space as a time-sequence of bipartite networks, connecting countries to the agricultural products they produce, and we identify properties and determinants underlying their evolution. We find that the agricultural product space is a very dense network, which however displays well-defined and stable communities of countries and products, despite the unprecedented pressure that food systems have been undergoing in recent years. We also find that the observed community structures are not only shaped by agro-ecological conditions but also by economic, socio-political, and technological factors. Finally, we discuss the implications that such findings may have on our understanding of the complex relationships involving country production capabilities, their specialization patterns, food security, and the nutrition content of the domestic part of their food supply. |
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I28-R145-2532_oai2026-02-09 Campi, Mercedes Dueñas, Marco Fagiolo, Giorgio 2022-12-03 In the last years, there has been a growing interest in studying the global food system as a complex evolving network. Much of the literature has been focusing on the way countries are interconnected in the food system through international-trade linkages, and what consequences this may have in terms of food security and sustainability. Little attention has been instead devoted to understanding how countries, given their capabilities, specialize in agricultural production and to the determinants of country specialization patterns. In this paper, we start addressing this issue using FAO production data for the period 1993-2013. We characterize the food production space as a time-sequence of bipartite networks, connecting countries to the agricultural products they produce, and we identify properties and determinants underlying their evolution. We find that the agricultural product space is a very dense network, which however displays well-defined and stable communities of countries and products, despite the unprecedented pressure that food systems have been undergoing in recent years. We also find that the observed community structures are not only shaped by agro-ecological conditions but also by economic, socio-political, and technological factors. Finally, we discuss the implications that such findings may have on our understanding of the complex relationships involving country production capabilities, their specialization patterns, food security, and the nutrition content of the domestic part of their food supply. En los últimos años, ha habido un creciente interés en estudiar el sistema alimentario mundial como una red compleja en evolución. Gran parte de la literatura se ha centrado en la forma en que los países están interconectados en el sistema alimentario a través de vínculos de comercio internacional y en qué consecuencias puede tener esto en términos de seguridad alimentaria y sostenibilidad. En cambio, se ha prestado poca atención a comprender cómo los países, dadas sus capacidades, se especializan en la producción agrícola y a los determinantes de los patrones de especialización de los países. En este trabajo, comenzamos a abordar este problema utilizando datos de producción de la FAO para el período 1993-2013. Caracterizamos el espacio de producción de alimentos como una secuencia temporal de redes bipartitas, conectando a los países con los productos agrícolas que producen, e identificamos propiedades y determinantes subyacentes a su evolución. Encontramos que el espacio de productos agrícolas es una red muy densa que, sin embargo, muestra comunidades de países y productos bien definidas y estables, a pesar de la presión sin precedentes que los sistemas alimentarios han experimentado en los últimos años. También encontramos que las comunidades observadas no sólo están determinadas por las condiciones agroecológicas, sino también por factores económicos, sociopolíticos y tecnológicos. Finalmente, discutimos las implicaciones que estos hallazgos pueden tener en nuestra comprensión de las complejas relaciones que involucran las capacidades de producción de los países, sus patrones de especialización, la seguridad alimentaria y el contenido nutricional de la parte doméstica de su oferta de alimentos. application/pdf https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2532 eng Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política (IIEP UBA-CONICET) https://ojs.economicas.uba.ar/DT-IIEP/article/view/2532/3267 Documentos de trabajo del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política; Núm. 48 (2020): Documento de trabajo del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires UBA CONICET; 1-32 Working Papers series at Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política; No. 48 (2020): Working paper of Interdisciplinary Institute of Political Economy of Buenos Aires UBA CONICET; 1-32 2451-5728 Sistemas alimentarios Redes bipartitas Detección de comunidades Filtrado hipergeométrico Food systems Food production Specialization Bipartite networks Community structure detection Hypergeometric filtering How do countries specialize in food production? A complex network analysis of the global produce space ¿Cómo se especializan los países en la producción de alimentos? Un análisis de redes complejas del espacio global de productos agrícolas info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=dociiep&d=2532_oai |