Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia
National strategies aiming to enhance agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa have traditionally focused on encouraging the adoption of improved modern crop varieties. This approach led to genetic erosion and reduced option value for bioprospecting, an unintended consequence of the decline o...
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| author | Gotor, Elisabetta Orecchia, Carlo Pallante, Giacomo Fadda, Carlo Salvatici, Luca |
| author_browse | Fadda, Carlo Gotor, Elisabetta Orecchia, Carlo Pallante, Giacomo Salvatici, Luca |
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| description | National strategies aiming to enhance agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa have traditionally focused on encouraging the adoption of improved modern crop varieties. This approach led to genetic erosion and reduced option value for bioprospecting, an unintended consequence of the decline of locally conserved traditional varieties. Governments are often left with poor guidance to evaluate the costs and benefits of this strategy. In this paper, we propose a methodological framework for assessing agricultural policies based on local agrobiodiversity conservation. In particular, we modify a computable general equilibrium model with trade to account for the land allocated to traditional and improved modern varieties as input for the agricultural sector. As a case study we select the Ethiopian durum wheat. Several sources of data at macro, micro and agronomic levels are adopted to estimate parameters and economic effects. Accounting for climate change and technological projections up to 2050, results of a counterfactual scenario show that when policy-driven breeding programs in specific agroecological niches are implemented, they simultaneously achieves conservation and food production goals. The findings underscore the need for policy interventions aimed at promoting context-specific strategies that consider conservation and production objectives within the broader agricultural landscape. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1551062025-11-11T17:47:50Z Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia Gotor, Elisabetta Orecchia, Carlo Pallante, Giacomo Fadda, Carlo Salvatici, Luca crops agricultural production computable general equilibrium models genetic erosion National strategies aiming to enhance agricultural productivity in sub-Saharan Africa have traditionally focused on encouraging the adoption of improved modern crop varieties. This approach led to genetic erosion and reduced option value for bioprospecting, an unintended consequence of the decline of locally conserved traditional varieties. Governments are often left with poor guidance to evaluate the costs and benefits of this strategy. In this paper, we propose a methodological framework for assessing agricultural policies based on local agrobiodiversity conservation. In particular, we modify a computable general equilibrium model with trade to account for the land allocated to traditional and improved modern varieties as input for the agricultural sector. As a case study we select the Ethiopian durum wheat. Several sources of data at macro, micro and agronomic levels are adopted to estimate parameters and economic effects. Accounting for climate change and technological projections up to 2050, results of a counterfactual scenario show that when policy-driven breeding programs in specific agroecological niches are implemented, they simultaneously achieves conservation and food production goals. The findings underscore the need for policy interventions aimed at promoting context-specific strategies that consider conservation and production objectives within the broader agricultural landscape. 2025-04 2024-10-02T19:42:11Z 2024-10-02T19:42:11Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155106 en Open Access application/pdf Springer Gotor, E.; Orecchia, C.; Pallante, G.; Fadda, C.; Salvatici, L. (2024) Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia. Economia Politica 41(2): p. 395-638. ISSN: 1973-820X |
| spellingShingle | crops agricultural production computable general equilibrium models genetic erosion Gotor, Elisabetta Orecchia, Carlo Pallante, Giacomo Fadda, Carlo Salvatici, Luca Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia |
| title | Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Agrobiodiversity conservation policies: Insights from an integrated micro-macro economic model in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | agrobiodiversity conservation policies insights from an integrated micro macro economic model in ethiopia |
| topic | crops agricultural production computable general equilibrium models genetic erosion |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155106 |
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