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<sec><h3>Research background</h3>
<p>As part of the process of structural transformation that countries go through in their development journey, the relative significance of agriculture as a sector typically shrinks over time. Nonetheless, the agricultural sector maintains its significance in terms of its trade potential and global employment prospects to this day. The extant literature largely neglects the impact of countries’ land resources on agricultural trade by emphasizing agricultural farm size and land productivity nexus. This justifies the exploration of the causal nexus between countries’ agricultural land resources and their agricultural exports.</p>
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<sec><h3>Purpose</h3>
<p>The study herein aims at investigating the nexus between countries’ total agricultural land resources and agricultural exports for 174 selected countries over the period 1991–2019.</p>
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<sec><h3>Research methodology</h3>
<p>Dumitrescu and Hurlin’s (2012) test for Granger non-causality for heterogeneous panels is harnessed.</p>
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<sec><h3>Results</h3>
<p>Estimation results evidence the presence of bi-directional causality (feedback) between countries’ agricultural land resources and agricultural exports not only in the whole panel (1991–2019) but also in subpanels too (1991–2000, 2001–2010, and 2011–2019). Overall, the results stress the strategic importance of agricultural land as a significant determinant of agricultural exports.</p>
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<sec><h3>Novelty</h3>
<p>Our study takes a unique approach and investigates if there is a cause-and-effect relationship between a country’s agricultural land resources and its agricultural exports by relying on the implications of the factor endowment theory of trade.</p>
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Research background
As part of the process of structural transformation that countries go through in their development journey, the relative significance of agriculture as a sector typically shrinks over time. Nonetheless, the agricultural sector maintains its significance in terms of its trade potential and global employment prospects to this day. The extant literature largely neglects the impact of countries’ land resources on agricultural trade by emphasizing agricultural farm size and land productivity nexus. This justifies the exploration of the causal nexus between countries’ agricultural land resources and their agricultural exports.

Purpose
The study herein aims at investigating the nexus between countries’ total agricultural land resources and agricultural exports for 174 selected countries over the period 1991–2019.

Research methodology
Dumitrescu and Hurlin’s (2012) test for Granger non-causality for heterogeneous panels is harnessed.

Results
Estimation results evidence the presence of bi-directional causality (feedback) between countries’ agricultural land resources and agricultural exports not only in the whole panel (1991–2019) but also in subpanels too (1991–2000, 2001–2010, and 2011–2019). Overall, the results stress the strategic importance of agricultural land as a significant determinant of agricultural exports.

Novelty
Our study takes a unique approach and investigates if there is a cause-and-effect relationship between a country’s agricultural land resources and its agricultural exports by relying on the implications of the factor endowment theory of trade.

Land Resources and Agricultural Exports Nexus

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia

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Research background
As part of the process of structural transformation that countries go through in their development journey, the relative significance of...

Land Resources and Agricultural Exports Nexus

Published Online: Jun 09, 2023

Page range: 284 - 300

Received: Nov 04, 2022

Accepted: Mar 02, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/foli-2023-0015

Keywords
Agricultural Exports, Land Resources, Factor Endowment, Panel Data Analysis

© 2023 Harun Uçak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Land Resources and Agricultural Exports Nexus

Published Online: Jun 09, 2023

Page range: 284 - 300

Received: Nov 04, 2022

Accepted: Mar 02, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/foli-2023-0015

KeywordsAgricultural Exports, Land Resources, Factor Endowment, Panel Data Analysis

© 2023 Harun Uçak et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Agricultural Exports, Land Resources, Factor Endowment, Panel Data Analysis