No. 117: Agriculture and Trade with Russia

Author(s): Phatima Mamardashvili, Salome Gelashvili, Ia Katsia, Salome Deisadze, Sophie Ghvanidze, Linda Bitsch, Jon Hanf, Linde Götz
Series Editor(s): Linde Götz (Special Editor), Miranda Svanidze (Special Editor), Lusine Badalyan, Bruno De Cordier, Farid Guliyev, Diana Lezhava, Lili Di Puppo, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Abel Polese, Licínia Simão, Koba Turmanidze
Series: Caucasus Analytical Digest (CAD)
Issue: 117
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Caucasus Research Resource Center (CRRC-Georgia); Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2020

The topic of this issue is Agriculture and Trade with Russia. Firstly, Phatima Mamardashvili, Salome Gelashvili, Ia Katsia, and Salome Deisadze show that agricultural trade dependency on Russia is most pronounced for Azerbaijan and Armenia and is significantly lower for Georgia due to Russia’s embargo against Georgia’s food exports from 2006 to 2012. Secondly, Sophie Ghvanidze, Linda Bitsch, Jon H. Hanf, and Miranda Svanidze focus on the wine industry in the South Caucasus; while Georgia preserved its wine culture after the dissolution of the USSR, Armenia and Azerbaijan had to revitalize their wine sectors. Thirdly, Miranda Svanidze and Linde Götz point out that food security has improved during the transition period, although food insecurity is still prevalent in the countries of the South Caucasus, which are heavily dependent on wheat imports from Russia and to a limited degree from Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

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