Taxing animal-based foods for sustainability: environmental, nutritional and social perspectives in France

France Caillavet, Adélaïde Fadhuile and Véronique Nichèle
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France Caillavet: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique
Véronique Nichèle: ALISS - Alimentation et sciences sociales - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: This article examines the impact of a consumption tax on environmentally unfriendly animal-based foods. It focuses on three dimensions: environmental emissions, diet quality and social equity. Using scanner data, we derive elasticities from an Exact Affine Stone Index demand system and simulate two scenarios, one including and one excluding nutritional concerns. Our results show that an environmental tax may reduce emissions (by −6.6 to −13.2 per cent based on the indicators) and improve diet quality (1.2 per cent) with a modest impact on the food-at-home budget (−4.0 per cent). This beneficial synergy between environmental and nutritional effects holds across income and age groups, with a small regressive impact.

Keywords: socioeconomic disparities; EASI demand system; price policy; food sustainability; disparites socio-economiques; alimentation durable; politique des prix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-08-08
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Published in European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 43 (4), pp.537-560. ⟨10.1093/erae/jbv041⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbv041

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