Mitigation Strategies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agriculture and Land-Use Change: Consequences for Food Prices

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• 作者：Miodrag StevanovićAlexander Popp ; Benjamin Leon Bodirsky ; Florian Humpenöder ; Christoph MüllerIsabelle Weindl ; Jan Philipp Dietrich ; Hermann Lotze-Campen ; Ulrich Kreidenweis ; Susanne Rolinski ; Anne Biewald ; Xiaoxi Wang
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 3, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：51
• 期：1
• 页码：365-374
• 全文大小：501K
• ISSN：1520-5851

文摘

The land use sector of agriculture, forestry, and other land use (AFOLU) plays a central role in ambitious climate change mitigation efforts. Yet, mitigation policies in agriculture may be in conflict with food security related targets. Using a global agro–economic model, we analyze the impacts on food prices under mitigation policies targeting either incentives for producers (e.g., through taxes) or consumer preferences (e.g., through education programs). Despite having a similar reduction potential of 43–44% in 2100, the two types of policy instruments result in opposite outcomes for food prices. Incentive-based mitigation, such as protecting carbon-rich forests or adopting low-emission production techniques, increase land scarcity and production costs and thereby food prices. Preference-based mitigation, such as reduced household waste or lower consumption of animal-based products, decreases land scarcity, prevents emissions leakage, and concentrates production on the most productive sites and consequently lowers food prices. Whereas agricultural emissions are further abated in the combination of these mitigation measures, the synergy of strategies fails to substantially lower food prices. Additionally, we demonstrate that the efficiency of agricultural emission abatement is stable across a range of greenhouse-gas (GHG) tax levels, while resulting food prices exhibit a disproportionally larger spread.