Balancing public goods in agriculture through safe minimum standards

Bullock, David S.; Mittenzwei, Klaus; Wangsness, Paal Brevik

doi:10.1093/erae/jbv037

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“…However, no appropriate state‐of‐the‐art quantitative tool to inform domestic agricultural policy decision‐making in Norway with these features is currently available. Jordmod (Bullock et al ., ) was specifically developed as an agricultural sector model for Norway, but has methodological weaknesses. It is a linear programming (LP)‐based system which first optimises typical farms and next, taking these optimal programmes as fixed, determines ‘optimal’ weights in the farm populations to clear domestic markets.…”

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Analysing Farm‐specific Payments for Norway using the Agrispace Model

Mittenzwei¹,

Britz²

2018

J Agricultural Economics

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Norway maintains a complex system of activity or type specific coupled payments which account for a large share of farm income. Most of the payment rates are negatively related to farm size and are higher in remote areas compared to central regions. We present and use a newly developed recursive-dynamic multi-commodity model (Agrispace) with CES production functions depicting regional farm clusters derived from the full farm population. Using this model, we simulate impacts of current and alternative subsidy policies on production, prices, input use, income and farm structural change. Mapping cluster results to each farm along with behavioural rules allows estimation of individual profits and farm exits. Our results indicate that, in the short run, the current policy regime seems to support the policy objective of maintaining a variety of farms in all parts of Norway. In the long run, farm structural change is less affected by a policy reform that leaves total support levels unchanged.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysing Farm‐specific Payments for Norway using the Agrispace Model

Mittenzwei¹,

Britz²

2018

J Agricultural Economics

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“…Nevertheless, the results reported in this paper show a weaker relationship between GHG emission cuts, production and land use. Agrispace allows for more input substitution than the models in [2], [3], and [4] in which production technology is mostly fixed. The approach taken in Agrispace seems more appropriate as it better captures farmers' responses to changes in relative prices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The concrete climate actions taken to achieve this goal are disputed and remain unclear. A potential conflict of GHG emission reductions and other agricultural policy objectives has so far been discussed at the national level [2,3]. This paper contributes to this knowledge gap by questioning the extent to which the regional distribution of agricultural activity and changes in farm size affect GHG emissions from agriculture.…”

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“…The regionalized agricultural sector model Agrispace that comprises the entire Norwegian farm population [4], is applied to a series of structured scenarios. Agrispace is particularly useful for this research question as it provides a dynamic perspective and avoids regional specialization effects associated with comparable models like Jordmod [2]. Agrispace is extended to account for GHG-emission, which was lacking in the original version of the model.…”

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Norwegian Agriculture: The Regional and Structural Dimension

Mittenzwei

2020

Sustainability

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This paper studies the hypothesis that farm structure and the regional distribution of agricultural activity themselves have a significant impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. Applying a dynamic model for the Norwegian agricultural sector covering the entire farm population, the model results support the hypothesis. Even without mitigation options, GHG emissions decline by 1.4 per cent if agriculture becomes regionally concentrated and increase by 1.5 per cent if a policy that favors a small-scale farm structure is put in place. Adding a carbon tax to a policy that leads to regional concentration, may help to reconcile competing policy objectives. A switch from animal production to crop production, and an extensification of animal production keeps a large resource base across the country while cutting GHG emissions.

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“…Norwegian agriculture is subject to detailed market regulation (Brunstad et al., 1997; Bullock et al., 2016; Espeli, 2008; Gaasland, 2010; Sorensen & Tennbakk, 2002). This system of market regulation levels out the natural variation between members with respect to qualities.…”

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Standard quality as a boundary object—A conceptual study

Borgen¹

2021

Sociologia Ruralis

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This is a conceptual article that uses the concept 'boundary object' in order to discuss what role the loosely defined notion 'standard product quality' plays with regard to coordination and controversies in the Norwegian agrifood market. The boundary object theory offers a unique approach to exploring the boundaries (shared spaces) between standard and non-standard product qualities as framed by the involved actors. This theory emphasises the difference between doing and being: Analysing what quality does in social settings is a more informative approach than discussing what quality is. The core arguments are illustrated by a review of available studies of the Norwegian agrifood market. The first part of the article concludes that standard quality coordinates the hegemonic stakeholders (producers, retailers, regulators and consumers) without presupposing consensus between them. The second part of the article addresses the controversies in the boundaries between the hegemonic agricultural agrifood system and competing alternatives related to organic, terroir and animal welfare qualities. The study discerns no signs of any transformative quality turn-away from the Norwegian hegemonic agrifood system and the inherent emphasise on 'standard product' quality.

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Balancing public goods in agriculture through safe minimum standards

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Analysing Farm‐specific Payments for Norway using the Agrispace Model

Analysing Farm‐specific Payments for Norway using the Agrispace Model

Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Norwegian Agriculture: The Regional and Structural Dimension

Standard quality as a boundary object—A conceptual study

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