Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Agricultural production is both strongly affected by climate change and a major contributor to climate change, with agriculture and land-use change accounting for about one fifth of total global greenhouse gas emissions – more than for transport or industrial uses. Agricultural production benefits f...
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| author | Laborde Debucquet, David Gautam, Madhur Martin, Will Piñeiro, Valeria Vos, Rob |
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| description | Agricultural production is both strongly affected by climate change and a major contributor to climate change, with agriculture and land-use change accounting for about one fifth of total global greenhouse gas emissions – more than for transport or industrial uses. Agricultural production benefits from substantial government support, costing at least US$ 640 billion per year worldwide. Past and current support have an impact on greenhouse gas emissions by influencing the composition and location of output, and production practices. This brief summarises the evidence indicating that simple elimination of all existing support measures would do little to reduce global emissions from agriculture, but the latter could be cut by as much as 40% by “smart repurposing”, which would shift resources towards R&D and generate incentives for the widespread adoption of productivity-enhancing and climate-resilient production practices. The brief recommends that the G20: (i) supports the international AgIncentives Consortium to serve as an enhanced platform to monitor the environmental, as well as the economic and social impacts of agricultural support measures; (ii) prepares a guidance for the international coordination of smart repurposing of agricultural support measures to align these with common objectives of sustainability and efficiency of food systems, poverty reduction, food security and affordability of healthy diets for all; (iii) organises joint sessions of Agriculture, Finance and Development Track Ministers to engage in dialogue leading to concerted action for the repurposing of agricultural support measures. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1421322025-02-24T06:46:58Z Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation Laborde Debucquet, David Gautam, Madhur Martin, Will Piñeiro, Valeria Vos, Rob g20 agricultural production support measures policies greenhouse gas emissions agriculture land use subsidies climate change Agricultural production is both strongly affected by climate change and a major contributor to climate change, with agriculture and land-use change accounting for about one fifth of total global greenhouse gas emissions – more than for transport or industrial uses. Agricultural production benefits from substantial government support, costing at least US$ 640 billion per year worldwide. Past and current support have an impact on greenhouse gas emissions by influencing the composition and location of output, and production practices. This brief summarises the evidence indicating that simple elimination of all existing support measures would do little to reduce global emissions from agriculture, but the latter could be cut by as much as 40% by “smart repurposing”, which would shift resources towards R&D and generate incentives for the widespread adoption of productivity-enhancing and climate-resilient production practices. The brief recommends that the G20: (i) supports the international AgIncentives Consortium to serve as an enhanced platform to monitor the environmental, as well as the economic and social impacts of agricultural support measures; (ii) prepares a guidance for the international coordination of smart repurposing of agricultural support measures to align these with common objectives of sustainability and efficiency of food systems, poverty reduction, food security and affordability of healthy diets for all; (iii) organises joint sessions of Agriculture, Finance and Development Track Ministers to engage in dialogue leading to concerted action for the repurposing of agricultural support measures. 2021-10-01 2024-05-22T12:10:01Z 2024-05-22T12:10:01Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142132 en https://www.g20-insights.org/policy_briefs/repurposing-agricultural-policy-support-for-climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation Open Access T20 Italy Laborde Debucquet, David; Gautam, Madhur; Martin, Will; Piñeiro, Valeria; and Vos, Rob. 2021. Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Task Force 2 Climate Change, Sustainable Energy & Environment Brief September 2021. https://www.t20italy.org/2021/09/21/repurposing-agricultural-policy-support-for-climate-change-mitigation-and-adaptation-2 |
| spellingShingle | g20 agricultural production support measures policies greenhouse gas emissions agriculture land use subsidies climate change Laborde Debucquet, David Gautam, Madhur Martin, Will Piñeiro, Valeria Vos, Rob Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| title | Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| title_full | Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| title_fullStr | Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| title_short | Repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| title_sort | repurposing agricultural support for climate change mitigation and adaptation |
| topic | g20 agricultural production support measures policies greenhouse gas emissions agriculture land use subsidies climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142132 |
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