Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops

Constraints on land and water resources, growth in population, and an apparent slowdown in agricultural productivity raise concerns that food prices may rise substantially in the coming decades. A key question is whether policies aimed at increasing agricultural productivity may be effective in reve...

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Main Authors:	Ivanic, Maros, Martin, Will
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models D580 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Agricultural R&D Agricultural Technology Biofuels Agricultural Extension Services Q160
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5872

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spelling	okr-10986-58722021-04-23T14:02:23Z Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops Ivanic, Maros Martin, Will Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models D580 Measurement and Analysis of Poverty I320 Economic Development: Agriculture Natural Resources Energy Environment Other Primary Products O130 Agricultural R&D Agricultural Technology Biofuels Agricultural Extension Services Q160 Constraints on land and water resources, growth in population, and an apparent slowdown in agricultural productivity raise concerns that food prices may rise substantially in the coming decades. A key question is whether policies aimed at increasing agricultural productivity may be effective in reversing the long-run trend and bringing about significant reductions in food prices. This article uses a global general equilibrium model and a set of microeconomic household models for a sample of 26 developing countries to assess potential implications of higher agricultural productivity--such as through the adoption of genetically modified plants--for household incomes, farmer profits, and poverty. Higher agricultural productivity resulting from increased investments in research and development is found capable of significantly lowering poverty by lowering the cost of consumption of the poorest households without significantly hurting farmers' returns. We also found that raising agricultural productivity among the developing countries only is sufficient to achieve most poverty reduction in the global scenario. 2012-03-30T07:34:57Z 2012-03-30T07:34:57Z 2010 Journal Article AgBioForum 1522936X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5872 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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description	Constraints on land and water resources, growth in population, and an apparent slowdown in agricultural productivity raise concerns that food prices may rise substantially in the coming decades. A key question is whether policies aimed at increasing agricultural productivity may be effective in reversing the long-run trend and bringing about significant reductions in food prices. This article uses a global general equilibrium model and a set of microeconomic household models for a sample of 26 developing countries to assess potential implications of higher agricultural productivity--such as through the adoption of genetically modified plants--for household incomes, farmer profits, and poverty. Higher agricultural productivity resulting from increased investments in research and development is found capable of significantly lowering poverty by lowering the cost of consumption of the poorest households without significantly hurting farmers' returns. We also found that raising agricultural productivity among the developing countries only is sufficient to achieve most poverty reduction in the global scenario.
format	Journal Article
author	Ivanic, Maros Martin, Will
author_facet	Ivanic, Maros Martin, Will
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title	Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops
title_short	Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops
title_full	Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops
title_fullStr	Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops
title_full_unstemmed	Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops
title_sort	poverty impacts of improved agricultural productivity: opportunities for genetically modified crops
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Poverty Impacts of Improved Agricultural Productivity: Opportunities for Genetically Modified Crops

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