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No Terroir in the Cold? A Note on the Geography of Geographical Indications
Author(s) -
Huysmans Martijn,
Swinnen Johan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.157
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1477-9552
pISSN - 0021-857X
DOI - 10.1111/1477-9552.12328
Subject(s) - terroir , protectionism , geographical indication , member states , international trade , per capita , negotiation , geography , welfare , wine , agricultural economics , international economics , political science , economics , regional science , european union , food science , demography , biology , law , population , sociology
Geographical Indications ( GI s) are increasingly important instruments of agricultural and food regulations and are growing as contentious issues in trade negotiations and disputes. GI s can improve welfare but they can also be a protectionist instrument. The EU has the most GI s in the world, but they are concentrated in the south of the EU . Even excluding wine, there are seven times more food GI s per capita in the southern EU Member States than in other EU Member States. This note discusses several factors which may explain the geographic concentration of GI s in the south of the EU .