Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions
Agricultural production is strongly affected by and a major contributor to climate change. Agriculture and land-use change account for a quarter of total global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government support. No rigorous quant...
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| author | Laborde Debucquet, David Mamun, Abdullah Martin, Will Piñeiro, Valeria Vos, Rob |
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| description | Agricultural production is strongly affected by and a major contributor to climate change. Agriculture and land-use change account for a quarter of total global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government support. No rigorous quantification of the impact of this support on GHG emissions has been available. This article helps fill the void. Here, we find that, while over the years the government support has incentivized the development of high-emission farming systems, at present, the support only has a small impact in terms of inducing additional global GHG emissions from agricultural production; partly because support is not systematically biased towards high-emission products, and partly because support generated by trade protection reduces demand for some high-emission products by raising their consumer prices. Substantially reducing GHG emissions from agriculture while safeguarding food security requires a more comprehensive revamping of existing support to agriculture and food consumption. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1428072024-10-25T07:55:35Z Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions Laborde Debucquet, David Mamun, Abdullah Martin, Will Piñeiro, Valeria Vos, Rob models agricultural production greenhouse gas emissions agriculture agricultural subsidies computable general equilibrium models trade subsidies climate change Agricultural production is strongly affected by and a major contributor to climate change. Agriculture and land-use change account for a quarter of total global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government support. No rigorous quantification of the impact of this support on GHG emissions has been available. This article helps fill the void. Here, we find that, while over the years the government support has incentivized the development of high-emission farming systems, at present, the support only has a small impact in terms of inducing additional global GHG emissions from agricultural production; partly because support is not systematically biased towards high-emission products, and partly because support generated by trade protection reduces demand for some high-emission products by raising their consumer prices. Substantially reducing GHG emissions from agriculture while safeguarding food security requires a more comprehensive revamping of existing support to agriculture and food consumption. 2021-05-10 2024-05-22T12:11:06Z 2024-05-22T12:11:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142807 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134270 Open Access Nature Publishing Group Laborde Debucquet, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will; Piñeiro, Valeria; and Vos, Rob. 2021. Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions. Nature Communications 12: 2601. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22703-1 |
| spellingShingle | models agricultural production greenhouse gas emissions agriculture agricultural subsidies computable general equilibrium models trade subsidies climate change Laborde Debucquet, David Mamun, Abdullah Martin, Will Piñeiro, Valeria Vos, Rob Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions |
| title | Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions |
| title_full | Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions |
| title_fullStr | Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions |
| title_short | Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions |
| title_sort | agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions |
| topic | models agricultural production greenhouse gas emissions agriculture agricultural subsidies computable general equilibrium models trade subsidies climate change |
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