Taxing food consumption to reduce environmental impacts – Identification of synergies and goal conflicts

Moberg, Emma; Säll, Sarah; Hansson, Per‐Anders; Röös, Elin

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102090

Cited by 18 publications

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“…According to the China Statistical Yearbook in 2020, the GDP of China's primary industry has increased from 101.85 billion yuan in 1978 to 7046.67 billion yuan in 2019. It has achieved rapid growth and feeds more than 20% of the whole world's population, although China occupies less than 10% of the world's arable land [1,[3][4][5]. However, China's agricultural development has never got rid of the production mode of high yield and high consumption [6], which has led to a sharp increase in resource consumption [1] and environmental pollution [7,8].…”

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Measurement of total factor productivity of green agriculture in China: Analysis of the regional differences based on China

Zhong

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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China’s agricultural economy is developing rapidly, but the unbalanced regional development is still a key issue that needs to be discussed today. By studying the total factor productivity of green agriculture and its factors, this paper analyzes the regional differences in time and space changes between the eastern, central and western parts of China. In this paper, the total factor productivity of green agriculture is calculated and decomposed by Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger index based on directional distance function. The results are as follows: First, the total factor productivity level of green agriculture in China is increasing year by year, but the overall level is still at a low level and has greater volatility; Second, although the total factor productivity of green agriculture shows an upward trend, the three regions show a downward trend in turn, which has great differences; Third, there are obvious differences in technological efficiency, optimal production potential and technological gap between the eastern, central and western regions, and there are great differences in productivity among regions and provinces. Based on the results, this paper puts forward policy recommendations, according to the regional heterogeneity, from a number of angles to rely on the joint efforts of many parties to improve the level of total factor productivity of green agriculture.

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Measurement of total factor productivity of green agriculture in China: Analysis of the regional differences based on China

Zhong

et al. 2021

PLoS ONE

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“…As an example, the reduction in harm from pesticides use was not considered in the development of the widely discussed EAT-Lancet planetary health diet [33]. A lack of adequate data has been identified as one of the contributing reasons [48][49][50][51]. As such, the pesticide toxicity footprints quantified for individual Australian adult diets in this study contributed important new evidence to inform the transition to sustainable diets.…”

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“…In Denmark, vegetarian and vegan diets were reported to have water scarcity footprints 26% and 31% higher than the average diet [62]. In Sweden, Moberg et al [50] identified the potential for the increased consumption of plant-based foods to increase the pesticide use and other environmental impacts. Affordability impacts have also been shown, whereby pathways to increased fruit and vegetable intakes in the UK led to higher diet costs [63].…”

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Pesticide Toxicity Footprints of Australian Dietary Choices

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Pesticides are widely used in food production, yet the potential harm associated with their emission into the environment is rarely considered in the context of sustainable diets. In this study, a life cycle assessment was used to quantify the freshwater ecotoxicity, human toxicity carcinogenic effects, and human toxicity noncarcinogenic effects associated with pesticide use in relation to 9341 individual Australian adult daily diets. The three environmental indicators were also combined into a pesticide toxicity footprint, and a diet quality score was applied to each diet. Energy-dense and nutrient-poor discretionary foods, fruits, and protein-rich foods were the sources of most of the dietary pesticide impacts. Problematically, a dietary shift toward recommended diets was found to increase the pesticide toxicity footprint compared to the current average diet. Using a quadrant analysis, a recommended diet was identified with a 38% lower pesticide toxicity footprint. This was achieved mainly through a reduction in the discretionary food intake and by limiting the choice of fresh fruits. As the latter contradicts dietary recommendations to eat a variety of fruits of different types and colors, we concluded that dietary change may not be the best approach to lowering the environmental impacts of pesticides in the food system. Instead, targeted action in the horticultural industry may be more effective. Consumers might encourage this transition by supporting growers that reduce pesticide use and apply less environmentally harmful active ingredients.

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“…Thus, the number of ruminant livestock needs to decline and livestock farmers need to produce more crops for direct human consumption, in order to reduce environmental impacts and make more macro- and micronutrients available for human consumption per unit land (Foley et al 2011 ; Karlsson and Röös 2019 ). However, this risks exacerbating losses of non-provisioning ES from agricultural landscapes (Moberg et al 2021 ).…”

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Smaller farm size and ruminant animals are associated with increased supply of non-provisioning ecosystem services

Karlsson

Tidåker

Röös

2022

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To balance trade-offs between livestock’s negative environmental impacts and their positive contributions (e.g. maintaining semi-natural grasslands, varied agricultural landscapes and crop rotations), a better understanding is needed of how the supply of ecosystem services differs across farms. We analysed a suite of indicators for non-provisioning ecosystem services on a large subset of Swedish farms (71% of farms, covering 82% of agricultural land) and related these to farm type, farm size and livestock density. The analysed indicators exhibited clear geographical patterns with hotspots especially in less productive regions. Controlling for this spatial variation we still found that small-scale and ruminant farms were associated with more varied landscapes, small-scale habitats, semi-natural grasslands and better crop sequences compared to nearby farms specialised in crop production, while farms specialising in monogastric livestock were associated with less varied landscapes and inferior crop sequences. Results for cultural ecosystem services indicated that farms with more semi-natural grassland were associated with more visitors and more likely located within designated recreation or nature conservation areas.

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Taxing food consumption to reduce environmental impacts – Identification of synergies and goal conflicts

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Measurement of total factor productivity of green agriculture in China: Analysis of the regional differences based on China

Measurement of total factor productivity of green agriculture in China: Analysis of the regional differences based on China

Pesticide Toxicity Footprints of Australian Dietary Choices

Smaller farm size and ruminant animals are associated with increased supply of non-provisioning ecosystem services

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