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Khabarov, N. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5372-4668 & Obersteiner, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-2769
(2018).
Modeling Global Trade in Phosphate Rock within a Partial Equilibrium Framework.
Sustainability 10 (5) p. 1550. 10.3390/su10051550.
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Abstract
Against the background of combined population and consumption growth, the global sustainable development agenda foresees limits to the expansion of agricultural land. The application of fertilizer is necessary to replenish soil nutrients and keep crop yields high. Phosphate rock (PR) is the main raw material for the production of commercial phosphorus fertilizers. The international PR market is highly concentrated in terms of reserves and supply: a few countries export the major share of all PR traded globally. As many countries are highly dependent on phosphorus import, the modeling of international PR trade and thus exploration of what-if scenarios is of great interest. For modeling purposes, we employ the partial equilibrium framework. The model is driven by a subset of the United Nations (UN) Comtrade database at a yearly time step spanning the period 1997–2016. The only inputs to the model are slope coefficients of demand–supply curves. The transportation costs are internalized by creating a costs ensemble on the basis of historical data. While reasonably sensitive to its inputs, the model fits very well to reported global annual traded quantities and prices and considerably improves per-trade-partner quantity estimates as compared to simple period-averaging approaches. This is the first application of a partial equilibrium approach to global PR market modeling, including validation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | phosphate rock; international trade; partial equilibrium |
| Research Programs: | Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) |
| Depositing User: | Luke Kirwan |
| Date Deposited: | 15 May 2018 08:35 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 17:30 |
| URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/15266 |
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