Chapter 1: Russia’s Foreign Food Trade: An Historical Survey
Journal: Palgrave advances in bioeconomy: economics and policies
Year: 2021

Abstract The chapter utilises four variables to examine Russia’s food trade from the 1970s to the present. The four variables include: frequency of entrance into the global food market; degree of food trade protectionism; degree of integration with Western global trading institutions; and degree of involvement in the global food market. For the period since 2014, the chapter concludes that the frequency of Russia’s entrance into the global food market is likely to remain high as an annual import