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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Multifunctional agriculture: The effect of non-public good on socially optimal policies
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| Autores: |
Ollikainen, Markku
Lankoski, Jussi E.
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| Data: |
2005-09-20
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Agricultural and Food Policy
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| Resumo: |
We develop a general framework for multifunctional agriculture, which includes not only public goods but also rural viability as a non-public good item. We contribute to the literature in two ways. First, we demonstrate how the broader definition of multifunctional agriculture differs from the agri-environmental multifunctionality, and how agri-environmental policy should be reformed to include these aspects. We show that rural viability entails adjusting fertilizer tax and buffer strip subsidy below their first-best Pigouvian levels to reflect the direct and indirect employment effects of agricultural production. Moreover, we show that when non-agricultural land use is present, an additional, non-agricultural instrument is needed to adjust the amount of land allocated to agriculture to its optimal level. In a parametric model calibrated to Finnish agricultural conditions and Finnish valuation of agri-environmental amenities and rural viability, we assess how the socially optimal provision of non-public good multifunctionality relates the socially optimal agri-environmental multifunctionality.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
17595
http://purl.umn.edu/11866
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| Editor: |
AgEcon Search
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| Relação: |
MTT Agrifood Research Finland>Discussion Papers
MTT Discussion Papers 1
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| Formato: |
28
application/pdf
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