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According to research conducted for Copenhagen Consensus, which I direct, investing an extra $88 billion in agricultural R&D over the next 15 years would increase yields by an additional 0.4 percentage points each year, which could save 79 million people from hunger and prevent five million cases of child malnourishment.
Another way to increase agricultural productivity is through labor.
When Copenhagen Consensus researchers examined responses to global warming in Bangladesh, they found that increasing agricultural labor productivity “is the only way to increase the resilience of Bangladesh to climate change and to meet long-term development goals.”
Investing around $9,000 per worker over two decades could boost agricultural productivity by 10%.
Bangladesh is an instructive case, because it is susceptible to flooding and the effects of climate change, and its agricultural productivity lags behind other developing and middle-income countries.
Across nine rural forums in far-flung parts of the country, the participants overwhelmingly spoke with one voice, calling for the same policy priority: increased agricultural productivity.
“We cannot feed our people two times a day – we need to increase our agricultural productivity.”
Great progress has been made, but the world needs more agricultural R&D and higher productivity.
Changing the world’s energy and agricultural systems is no small matter.
In Belarus alone, roughly 8,000 square kilometers of farmland, an area almost the same size as all of Switzerland’s agricultural terrain, has been rendered by radiation unusable for ages.
The first is to allow agricultural lands to fall into disuse, and then wait for them to revert naturally to forest.
Will you press for Europe and America to eliminate their agricultural subsidies?
When our research showed that certain policies (like agricultural subsidies) were hurting developing countries, we publicized the findings, helping to redefine the debate.
One reason for this, no doubt, is anxiety that enlargement entails -- as it must -- some national or sectoral sacrifices of material economic interests; for example in the reform of the structural funds or the common agricultural policy.
For example, in 1963, 97% of Thailand’s export basket was composed of agricultural and mineral products such as rice, rubber, tin, and jute.
If the UK manages to seize this opportunity, the EU, the United States, and other economies with highly protected agricultural sectors might follow suit.
Once freed from the flawed CAP, Brexit’s proponents argue, the UK will be able to build a more competitive agricultural sector that better serves farmers and agricultural workers, including by reducing dependence on distorting subsidies.
In New Zealand, the abolition of subsidies in 1984 helped to catalyze innovation and diversification in the agricultural sector, which today drives New Zealand’s economic growth.
It should be noted, however, that New Zealand’s agricultural sector had decades of experience surviving without subsidies.
To be sure, the abolition of subsidies was only one element of New Zealand’s agricultural transformation.
New Zealand is a huge net agricultural exporter, producing, for example, 98% more lamb and mutton than its population consumes.
Britain, by contrast, is a net importer of agricultural products, buying 46% of its food from other countries, including 27% from the EU.
Free-trade agreements are as important to the UK’s effort to ensure its agricultural sector’s competitiveness as they were to New Zealand.
But the primary objective must not be to ensure that British agricultural exports are competitive.
Rather, Britain must ensure that foreign imports do not overwhelm its own agricultural objectives.
Almost every country in the world – especially the US – has well-organized and influential agricultural industries that are highly skilled at pushing their governments to secure advantages for them in new trade deals.
As a result, far from protecting national agricultural objectives, new free-trade agreements are likely to bring increases in cheap food imports.
For starters, they must take action to protect the rural environment, ensure animal welfare, and improve education, knowledge transfer, and business training for farmers and agricultural workers.
The UK must also ensure that its agricultural sector can take advantage of new technologies.
For starters, national governments must work to modernize agricultural practices, including by training farmers and introducing more efficient irrigation tools.
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