Achieving Environmental Objectives Under Reduced Domestic Agricultural Support and Trade Liberalization: An Empirical Application to Taiwan

Hung-Hao Chang, Richard N. Boisvert and David Blandford
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Hung-Hao Chang: Cornell University
Richard N. Boisvert: Cornell University
David Blandford: Pennsylvania State University

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2005, vol. 34, issue 1, pages 16–31

Abstract: We focus on rice policy reform required for Taiwan’s admission to the WTO, and examine the effects, theoretically and empirically, of the re-instrumentation of domestic policy needed to achieve environmental objectives when both positive and negative environmental externalities exist. Policies that treat non-commodity attributes in agriculture as secondary to existing aims, such as income support, are unlikely to result in the desired supplies of environmental goods. Those supplies can be achieved at lower government and social costs using policy instruments to achieve environmental goals directly. Results are relatively insensitive to the social values assigned to environmental goods.

Keywords: WTO policy reform; multifunctionality; agri-environmental policy; rice policy; agricultural trade policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)

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