The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits

Inadequacies of the current agriculture and food systems are recognised globally in the form of damages to environment and human health. In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not reflect these damages in its accounting systems and standards. These shortcomings lead to perverse a...

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Main Authors: Sandhu, Harpinder, Müller, Alexander, Sukhdev, Pavan, Merrigan, Kathleen, Zhang, Wei
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: SAGE Publications 2019
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145901
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Müller, Alexander
Sukhdev, Pavan
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Zhang, Wei
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description Inadequacies of the current agriculture and food systems are recognised globally in the form of damages to environment and human health. In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not reflect these damages in its accounting systems and standards. These shortcomings lead to perverse and pervasive outcomes for society at large. Our proposal is to consider all social and environmental externalities – both negative and positive, in global agriculture and food systems and reflect them in an economic system by evaluating comprehensive costs and benefits. This can be done by adopting an innovative, universal, and inclusive framework (the ‘TEEBAgriFood’ framework) in order to stimulate appropriate policy responses.
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spelling CGSpace1459012024-10-25T07:57:08Z The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits Sandhu, Harpinder Müller, Alexander Sukhdev, Pavan Merrigan, Kathleen Zhang, Wei social capital costs human capital supply chains food wastes benefit-cost ratio natural capital agrifood systems food prices sustainable agriculture food systems Inadequacies of the current agriculture and food systems are recognised globally in the form of damages to environment and human health. In addition, the prevailing economic and policy systems do not reflect these damages in its accounting systems and standards. These shortcomings lead to perverse and pervasive outcomes for society at large. Our proposal is to consider all social and environmental externalities – both negative and positive, in global agriculture and food systems and reflect them in an economic system by evaluating comprehensive costs and benefits. This can be done by adopting an innovative, universal, and inclusive framework (the ‘TEEBAgriFood’ framework) in order to stimulate appropriate policy responses. 2019-09-09 2024-06-21T09:05:18Z 2024-06-21T09:05:18Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145901 en Limited Access SAGE Publications Sandhu, Harpinder; Müller, Alexander; Sukhdev, Pavan; Merrigan, Kathleen; Zhang, Wei; et al. 2019. The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits. The Anthropocene Review 6(3): 270-278. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019619872808
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costs
human capital
supply chains
food wastes
benefit-cost ratio
natural capital
agrifood systems
food prices
sustainable agriculture
food systems
Sandhu, Harpinder
Müller, Alexander
Sukhdev, Pavan
Merrigan, Kathleen
Zhang, Wei
The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
title The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
title_full The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
title_fullStr The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
title_full_unstemmed The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
title_short The future of agriculture and food: Evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
title_sort future of agriculture and food evaluating the holistic costs and benefits
topic social capital
costs
human capital
supply chains
food wastes
benefit-cost ratio
natural capital
agrifood systems
food prices
sustainable agriculture
food systems
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/145901
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