The Regional Political Economy of Knowledge and Environment

Cango, Pedro; Ramos-Martín, Jesús; Falconí, Fander

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62551-5_9

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“…To exploit the advantages provided by available arable land and soil, and climatic conditions without compromising their natural resources base, LCN countries need to confront some of the challenges mentioned. This is of special relevance as the region shows a pattern of deindustrialization in recent years (Cango et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 95%

Toward food sovereignty and self-sufficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: opportunities for agricultural complementarity

Cango

Ramos-Martín

Falconí

2023

Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural

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Food self-sufficiency is a relevant political issue in many countries, developed and developing, particularly to satisfy the internal nutritional needs of the population and face situations in which the prices of basic products are unstable or when a country faces an external shock. Improving resilience involves strengthening local rural communities to meet demand with domestic production. The member countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LCN) produce enough food to sustain their population and to be one of the world's largest food exporters. From the theoretical discussion and using data from FAO, the research shows that there is a potential to improve food sovereignty and to define food and agricultural policies through agricultural complementarity among the LCN countries. Diverting part of the current trade with third parties to intraregional trade, for products in which the region has a comparative advantage, would mean that LCN countries could save up to 2.7 billion dollars per year, that is, 6.8% of total imports of food in 2018, avoiding the outflow of foreign currency and promoting greater economic integration between countries.

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Section: Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Toward food sovereignty and self-sufficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: opportunities for agricultural complementarity

Cango

Ramos-Martín

Falconí

2023

Rev. Econ. Sociol. Rural

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“…Low income and middle income countries had 251 patent applications per million inhabitants, compared to 1118 applications for high income countries in 2016 [21]. Additionally, another explaining factor is the current asymmetry in the international regime for intellectual property rights, that penalizes poor countries that do not have the resources for protecting their inventions, and that do not have access to new technology due to the high costs of the royalties involved [40].…”

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Toxic Income as a Trigger of Climate Change

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The rate of CO2 emissions concentration in the atmosphere increases the likelihood of significant impacts on humankind and ecosystems. The assumption that permissible levels of greenhouse gas emissions cannot exceed the global average temperature increase of 2 °C in relation to pre-industrial levels remains uncertain. Despite this uncertainty, the direct implication is that enormous quantities of fossil fuels have, thus far, wrongly been counted as assets by hydrocarbon firms as they cannot be exploited if we want to keep climate under certain control. These are the so-called “toxic assets”. Due to the relationship among CO2 emissions, GDP, energy consumption, and energy efficiency, the concept of toxic assets can be transferred to toxic income, which is the income level that would generate levels of CO2 emissions incompatible with keeping climate change under control. This research, using a simulation model based on country-based econometric models, estimated a threshold for income per capita above which the temperature limit of 2 °C would be surpassed. Under the business as usual scenario, average per capita income would be $14,208 (in constant 2010 USD) in 2033; and under the intervention scenario, which reflects the commitments of the COP21 meeting held in Paris in December 2015, the toxic revenue would be $13,433 (in constant 2010 USD) in 2036.

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The Regional Political Economy of Knowledge and Environment

Cited by 2 publications

References 17 publications

Toward food sovereignty and self-sufficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: opportunities for agricultural complementarity

Toward food sovereignty and self-sufficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean: opportunities for agricultural complementarity

Toxic Income as a Trigger of Climate Change

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