What's your thoughts on "environmentally harmful agricultural subsidies"?
This report by TESS, curated at the FARM Knowledge Hub, discusses: "Recent studies have shown that a significant part of agricultural support relies on policy instruments that not only distort production and trade but also tend to generate increased greenhouse emissions and other environmental damages. In particular, they point to market price support, payments based on output, and input subsidies as potentially more harmful than other types of support measures. ... Further complicating the equation, subsidy programmes often involve trade-offs between different environmental objectives such as animal welfare or greenhouse gas emissions as well as broader public policy goals including rural development, employment and food or livelihood security for example. As a result, identifying ex ante the environmental effects of particular forms of support remains highly complex and subject to interpretation."
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