Net food import data for soybeans, calculated as import tonnage minus export tonnage per country. The dataset is sourced from FAOSTAT trade statistics and serves as a proxy for national vulnerability to global food price fluctuations. It is provided by the World Bank's Country Climate and Development Report initiative.
Use Cases
- Modeling a country's vulnerability to global soybean price shocks using its net import tonnage.
- Analyzing temporal trends in soybean trade balances for specific countries using yearly import and export levels.
- Correlating national soybean net import figures with broader economic or climate indicators from CCDR reports.
Strengths
- Derived from the authoritative FAOSTAT database for agricultural statistics.
- Provides a specific, calculated metric (net imports) for vulnerability analysis.
Limitations
- Exact temporal coverage, row count, and geographic scope are unspecified.
- Underlying import and export data columns are not detailed for validation.
Provenance
- Source
- FAOSTAT (Trade: Crops and Livestock Products), processed by the World Bank CCDR.
- Collection Method
- Net imports calculated by subtracting export tonnage from import tonnage.
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