Greenhouse Gas Abatement in Agriculture – Is there a Conflict with Food Security?

David Blandford, Ivar Gaasland and Erling Vårdal ()

EuroChoices, 2015, vol. 14, issue 1, 35-41

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Norway has indicated its desire to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from its domestic agricultural production. At the same time, it stresses the importance of food security as a policy objective and interprets this in terms of maintaining the supply of food calories for consumption from domestic production. Self-sufficiency in major agricultural products is pursued through high levels of support to farmers and import protection. We use a model of Norwegian agriculture to examine the simultaneous pursuit of a reduction in GHG emissions and the food security objective. With a continuation of a self-sufficiency policy, the reduction in emissions would lead to a major reduction in red meat consumption from extensive beef cattle and sheep production.

Date: 2015
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