Measuring the impacts of repurposing agricultural support on global agriculture

Vast amounts of resources are spent on support to agriculture, with questionable results for agriculture, for national incomes, for nutrition and for the environment. Is it possible to repurpose some of this support in ways that will bring about better outcomes? This study uses detailed modeling of...

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Autores principales: Gautam, Madhur, Laborde Debucquet, David, Mamun, Abdullah, Martin, Will, Piñeiro, Valeria, Vos, Rob
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143009
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author Gautam, Madhur
Laborde Debucquet, David
Mamun, Abdullah
Martin, Will
Piñeiro, Valeria
Vos, Rob
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description Vast amounts of resources are spent on support to agriculture, with questionable results for agriculture, for national incomes, for nutrition and for the environment. Is it possible to repurpose some of this support in ways that will bring about better outcomes? This study uses detailed modeling of the links between support, emissions and other outcomes to examine several different potential approaches. Simply removing or rearranging support seems not to be sufficient. While removing subsidies can reduce emissions, these reductions are slight relative to current emission levels, while removing border measures may increase emissions by increasing global demand and reallocating production. More comprehensive reforms, such as allocating more resources to R&D that results in lower emissions and higher efficiency, could have much more favorable impacts. Approaches that use conditionality to move producers to lower-emission production approaches can also play a role, although, if these involve lower productivity, they may put greater pressure on land use change and its associated emissions.
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spelling CGSpace1430092024-11-13T12:23:08Z Measuring the impacts of repurposing agricultural support on global agriculture Gautam, Madhur Laborde Debucquet, David Mamun, Abdullah Martin, Will Piñeiro, Valeria Vos, Rob models agricultural production policies greenhouse gas emissions agricultural policies research agriculture trade land use subsidies climate change Vast amounts of resources are spent on support to agriculture, with questionable results for agriculture, for national incomes, for nutrition and for the environment. Is it possible to repurpose some of this support in ways that will bring about better outcomes? This study uses detailed modeling of the links between support, emissions and other outcomes to examine several different potential approaches. Simply removing or rearranging support seems not to be sufficient. While removing subsidies can reduce emissions, these reductions are slight relative to current emission levels, while removing border measures may increase emissions by increasing global demand and reallocating production. More comprehensive reforms, such as allocating more resources to R&D that results in lower emissions and higher efficiency, could have much more favorable impacts. Approaches that use conditionality to move producers to lower-emission production approaches can also play a role, although, if these involve lower productivity, they may put greater pressure on land use change and its associated emissions. 2021-08-19 2024-05-22T12:11:33Z 2024-05-22T12:11:33Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143009 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133852 Open Access Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Gautam, Madhur; Laborde Debucquet, David; Mamun, Abdullah; Martin, Will; Piñeiro, Valeria; and Vos, Rob. 2021. Measuring the impacts of repurposing agricultural support on global agriculture. Presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting in JW Marriott in Austin, United States, August 1-3, 2021. https://purl.umn.edu/312847
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Laborde Debucquet, David
Mamun, Abdullah
Martin, Will
Piñeiro, Valeria
Vos, Rob
Measuring the impacts of repurposing agricultural support on global agriculture
title Measuring the impacts of repurposing agricultural support on global agriculture
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agricultural production
policies
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research
agriculture
trade
land use
subsidies
climate change
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