The economics of the Food versus Biodiversity debate
| dc.creator | Martinet, Vincent | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T15:08:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:19:46Z | |
| dc.description | Ecologists discuss the “food versus biodiversity” trade-offs in the fol- lowing terms: what is the land use configuration that minimizes biodiver- sity loss for a given food production target. This is, in economic terms, a cost-effectiveness approach related to the concept of Pareto-efficiency in the food-biodiversity outcomes map. This paper argues that economists should participate in this debate. A first set of results shows how the introduction of some basic micro-economic considerations modifies or reinforces the rec- ommendations of the ecological literature on how to preserve biodiversity while producing food. A second set of arguments emphasizes that it is not necessarily sensible, from an economic point of view, to set the debate in terms of food versus biodiversity. A wider, welfarist approach should be used. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.182800 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182800/files/Martinet-The_economics_of_the_food_versus_biodiversity_debate-508_a.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182800 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/597953 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182800 | |
| dc.title | The economics of the Food versus Biodiversity debate | |
| dc.type | Text |