The European Green Deal improves the sustainability of food systems but has uneven economic impacts on consumers and farmers

The European Green Deal aims notably to achieve a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system in the European Union. We develop a partial equilibrium economic model to assess the market and non-market impacts of the three main levers of the Green Deal targeting the food chain: reducing t...

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Published in:Communications earth & environment 2023-10, Vol.4 (1), p.358-14, Article 358
Main Authors: Guyomard, Hervé, Soler, Louis-Georges, Détang-Dessendre, Cécile, Réquillart, Vincent
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural economics
Agricultural practices
Biodiversity
Consumers
Diet
Economic analysis
Economic impact
Economic models
Economics
Economics and Finance
Emissions
Expenditures
Farm buildings
Food
Food chains
Food consumption
Food systems
Greenhouse gases
Humanities and Social Sciences
Levers
Livestock
Post-harvest decay
Reduction
Sustainability
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Summary:The European Green Deal aims notably to achieve a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system in the European Union. We develop a partial equilibrium economic model to assess the market and non-market impacts of the three main levers of the Green Deal targeting the food chain: reducing the use of chemical inputs in agriculture, decreasing post-harvest losses, and shifting toward healthier average diets containing lower quantities of animal-based products. Substantially improving the climate, biodiversity, and nutrition performance of the European food system requires jointly using the three levers. This allows a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of food consumption and a 40–50% decrease in biodiversity damage. Consumers win economically thanks to lower food expenditures. Livestock producers lose through quantity and price declines. Impacts on revenues of food/feed field crop producers are positive only when the increase in food consumption products outweighs the decrease in feed consumption.
ISSN:2662-4435
2662-4435
DOI:10.1038/s43247-023-01019-6