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  Mitigation strategies for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change: Consequences for food prices

Stevanović, M., Popp, A., Bodirsky, B. L., Humpenöder, F., Müller, C., Weindl, I., Dietrich, J. P., Lotze-Campen, H., Kreidenweis, U., Rolinski, S., Biewald, A., Wang, X. (2017): Mitigation strategies for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change: Consequences for food prices. - Environmental Science and Technology, 51, 1, 365-374.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.6b04291

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Stevanović, Miodrag1, Author              
Popp, Alexander1, Author              
Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon1, Author              
Humpenöder, Florian1, Author              
Müller, Christoph1, Author              
Weindl, Isabelle1, Author              
Dietrich, Jan Philipp1, Author              
Lotze-Campen, Hermann1, Author              
Kreidenweis, Ulrich1, Author              
Rolinski, Susanne1, Author              
Biewald, Anne1, Author              
Wang, Xiaoxi1, Author              
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 Abstract: 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.

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 Dates: 2017
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Rev. Type: Peer
 Identifiers: DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b04291
PIKDOMAIN: Sustainable Solutions - Research Domain III
PIKDOMAIN: Climate Impacts & Vulnerabilities - Research Domain II
eDoc: 7384
Research topic keyword: Mitigation
Research topic keyword: Carbon Pricing
Research topic keyword: Food & Agriculture
Research topic keyword: Land use
Research topic keyword: Economics
Model / method: MAgPIE
Regional keyword: Global
Organisational keyword: RD2 - Climate Resilience
Organisational keyword: RD3 - Transformation Pathways
Working Group: Land Use and Resilience
Working Group: Research Software Engineering for Transformation Pathways
Working Group: Land-Use Management
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Title: Environmental Science and Technology
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Pages: - Volume / Issue: 51 (1) Sequence Number: - Start / End Page: 365 - 374 Identifier: CoNE: https://publications.pik-potsdam.de/cone/journals/resource/journals130