Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate, and the Environment

This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture and climate and the natural environment

From:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
1 January 2021
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Economic Growth
Authors:
Barrett, C.B., Ortiz-Bobea, A, Pham, T

Abstract

This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the one hand, and climate and the natural environment, on the other. The longstanding, dominant economic development narrative largely ignores nature’s influence on factor productivity and stocks, even as it increasingly illustrates how agricultural technological change and economic growth affect nature. We articulate some of the missing linkages and pose a range of policy research questions worth exploration concerning structural transformation and the complex feedback among agriculture, nature, and economic growth processes, especially in the low-income agrarian nations of the Global South.

This is an output of the Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) programme

Citation

Barrett, C. B., Ortiz-Bobea, A. & Pham, T. (2021) “Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate, and the Environment” STEG Pathfinding Paper

Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate, and the Environment

Published 1 January 2021
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