The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers
Abstract The European Green Deal aims notably to achieve a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system in the European Union. We develop a partial equilibrium economic model to assess the market and non-market impacts of the three main levers of the Green Deal targeting the food chain: r...
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| author | Hervé Guyomard Louis-Georges Soler Cécile Détang-Dessendre Vincent Réquillart |
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| description | Abstract The European Green Deal aims notably to achieve a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system in the European Union. We develop a partial equilibrium economic model to assess the market and non-market impacts of the three main levers of the Green Deal targeting the food chain: reducing the use of chemical inputs in agriculture, decreasing post-harvest losses, and shifting toward healthier average diets containing lower quantities of animal-based products. Substantially improving the climate, biodiversity, and nutrition performance of the European food system requires jointly using the three levers. This allows a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of food consumption and a 40–50% decrease in biodiversity damage. Consumers win economically thanks to lower food expenditures. Livestock producers lose through quantity and price declines. Impacts on revenues of food/feed field crop producers are positive only when the increase in food consumption products outweighs the decrease in feed consumption. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-877707f52f6c4f86a42be7036ed8cf572023-11-20T11:01:58ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Earth & Environment2662-44352023-10-014111410.1038/s43247-023-01019-6The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmersHervé Guyomard0Louis-Georges Soler1Cécile Détang-Dessendre2Vincent Réquillart3INRAE, SDAR, La Motte au VicomteINRAE, PSAE, University of Paris-Saclay, Campus Agro Paris-SaclayINRAE, CESAER, Institut AgroTSE, INRAE, Manufacture des Tabacs, Aile Jean-Jacques LaffontAbstract The European Green Deal aims notably to achieve a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system in the European Union. We develop a partial equilibrium economic model to assess the market and non-market impacts of the three main levers of the Green Deal targeting the food chain: reducing the use of chemical inputs in agriculture, decreasing post-harvest losses, and shifting toward healthier average diets containing lower quantities of animal-based products. Substantially improving the climate, biodiversity, and nutrition performance of the European food system requires jointly using the three levers. This allows a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of food consumption and a 40–50% decrease in biodiversity damage. Consumers win economically thanks to lower food expenditures. Livestock producers lose through quantity and price declines. Impacts on revenues of food/feed field crop producers are positive only when the increase in food consumption products outweighs the decrease in feed consumption.https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01019-6 |
| spellingShingle | Hervé Guyomard Louis-Georges Soler Cécile Détang-Dessendre Vincent Réquillart The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers Communications Earth & Environment |
| title | The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers |
| title_full | The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers |
| title_fullStr | The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers |
| title_full_unstemmed | The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers |
| title_short | The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers |
| title_sort | european green deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01019-6 |
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