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Sustainability-Related Implications of Competitive Advantages in Agricultural Value Chains: Evidence from Central Asia—China Trade and Investment

doi: 10.3390/su12031117
More stable value chains in agriculture allow countries to take the best advantage of their factor endowments and thus achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal on ending hunger. It is, however, difficult to interpret such advantages properly due to the multivariate effects of natural, technological, and economic variables on agricultural output and food supply. The authors attempt to tackle this challenge by developing the approach to the identification of competitive advantages and matching them with the production capabilities of agricultural sectors in Central Asia. The application of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Relative Trade Advantage (RTA), Lafay Competitive Advantage (LI), and Domestic Resource Costs (DRC) indexes to the array of 37 products results in the revealing of comparative, trade, competitive, and production advantages of five Central Asian economies for labor-intensive horticultural products and grains. Capital and technology-intensive sectors of animal husbandry and food processing are recognized as low competitive. Taking Central Asia–China collaboration as a model, the authors elaborate policy measures aimed at support, promotion, or establishment of competitive advantages. The application of the measures facilitates the concentration of the resources toward competitive and conditionally competitive products, allows to protect fragile advantages in marginally competitive sectors, and contributes to the overall improvement of stakeholders’ performance across agricultural value chains in the region.
- Wuhan University China (People's Republic of)
- School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University China (People's Republic of)
- Harbin Engineering University China (People's Republic of)
- Harbin Engineering University China (People's Republic of)
- School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University China (People's Republic of)
Environmental effects of industries and plants, TJ807-830, food security, sustainability, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, Environmental sciences, central asia, Central Asia, value chain, GE1-350, agriculture
Environmental effects of industries and plants, TJ807-830, food security, sustainability, TD194-195, Renewable energy sources, Environmental sciences, central asia, Central Asia, value chain, GE1-350, agriculture
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