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Impact of shocks to economies on the efficiency and robustness of the international pesticide trade networks

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Pesticides are important agricultural inputs to increase agricultural productivity and improve food security. The availability of pesticides is partially achieved through international trade. However, economies involved in the international trade of pesticides are impacted by internal and external shocks from time to time, which influence the redistribution efficiency of pesticides all over the world. In this work, we adopt simulations to quantify the efficiency and robustness of the international pesticide trade networks under shocks to economies. Shocks are simulated based on nine node metrics, and three strategies are utilized based on descending, random, and ascending node removal. It is found that the efficiency and robustness of the international trade networks of pesticides increased for all the node metrics except the clustering coefficient. Moreover, the international pesticide trade networks are more fragile when import-oriented economies are affected by shocks.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (72171083), the Shanghai Outstanding Academic Leaders Plan, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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  1. School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Jian-An Li, Wen-Jie Xie & Wei-Xing Zhou

  2. School of Physics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Li Wang

  3. Research Center for Econophysics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Li Wang, Wen-Jie Xie & Wei-Xing Zhou

  4. School of Mathematics, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China

    Wei-Xing Zhou

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Funding acquisition: W-XZ; investigation: J-AL, LW, W-JX and W-XZ; methodology: W-JX and W-XZ; supervision: W-JX and W-XZ; writing-original draft, J-AL and W-JX; writing-review and editing: W-XZ.

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Li, JA., Wang, L., Xie, WJ. et al. Impact of shocks to economies on the efficiency and robustness of the international pesticide trade networks. Eur. Phys. J. B 96, 25 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-023-00493-3

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