Multifunctionality of agriculture: an inquiry into the complementarity between landscape preservation and food security

Rolf Jens Brunstad, Ivar Gaasland and Erling Vårdal ()

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2005, vol. 32, issue 4, 469-488

Abstract: Without support, the levels of agricultural public goods such as food security and landscape preservation would fall short of demand in high-cost countries. However, as demonstrated by Norway as a case study, the current level of support is disproportionate from a public goods perspective, and the policy instruments are badly targeted at the public goods in question. Because agricultural land is a major component of both food security and landscape preservation, giving rise to a high degree of cost complementarity between the public goods, it would be more efficient to support land-extensive production techniques than production per se. Copyright 2005, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2005
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