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In 1900, 38% of the labor force in Germany worked in agriculture; in 2000, only 2% did.
And yet the full-scale automation of agriculture did not lead to mass unemployment.
The other option is to close the Round by resolving the US-India discord on agriculture.
Already, services contribute the bulk of GDP in developing countries, even in low-income countries where agriculture has traditionally played a big part.
By contrast, traditional manufacturing could offer a large number of jobs to workers straight off the farm, at productivity levels three to four times that in agriculture.
Abe believes that the TPP would force needed reforms in domestic agriculture (though, interestingly, no one in the US thinks it would help the US move away from its highly distortionary agricultural policies).
In fact, such reforms would have a miniscule effect on GDP, simply because agriculture is a very small part of output.
A bold international move would be needed to overcome entrenched positions, and that means a deal involving substantial concessions by the US and the EU on agriculture in return for commensurate commitments by India, Brazil, China, and others to open their own markets for services and agriculture.
With the Europeans, simultaneous pursuit of an “enhanced transatlantic market” would make a new US-EU Doha initiative on agriculture more attractive to both sides, as it would aim at reducing additional barriers to transatlantic trade that are not covered in the multilateral round.
Although many markets are nowadays increasingly open--even if others, notably agriculture, remain distorted by protectionism--integrating global labor markets has largely been left out of the globalization process.
Indeed, liberalization of agriculture would provide a viable substitute for migration in many cases.
Moreover, market concentration in the agriculture sector is on the rise, owing to increased demand for the agricultural raw materials needed in food, animal feed, and energy production.
With other large mergers also being announced, the global agriculture market at the end of 2017 could look very different than it did at the beginning.
The most promising new opportunity for food corporations today lies in the digitization of agriculture.
But while this possible future bodes well for some of the world’s largest companies, it leaves the environmental and social problems associated with industrialized agriculture unsolved.
Lewis turned Boeke’s idea on its head, arguing that labor migration from traditional agriculture to modern industrial activities is the engine of economic development.
In successful economies, such as China and India, the movement of workers from traditional agriculture to manufacturing and modern services accounts for a substantial part of overall productivity growth, just as Lewis predicted.
This conclusion might seem to fly in the face of the experience of countries like Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, where many firms in the modern parts of the economy (including non-traditional agriculture) have experienced undeniable growth.
Between 2006 and 2011, for example, we doubled the agriculture budget, distributed more than 2,000 cows to low-income families, and expanded milk delivery and fruit and vegetable gardens across the country.
The TTIP would eliminate all trade tariffs and reduce non-tariff barriers, including in agriculture; expand market access in services trade; bring about closer regulatory harmonization; strengthen intellectual-property protection; restrict subsidies to state-owned enterprises; and more.
One of the most difficult is the EU’s limitation of imports of genetically modified foods, which presents a major problem for US agriculture.
To take a simple example, more reasonable EU rules on genetically modified agricultural imports from North America, if translated with appropriately careful monitoring to Africa, could be a tremendous boon to African agriculture.
The Land Law, although it is not very different from the forgotten one on the books for 40 years, is still portrayed as creating conditions that will starve investment in agriculture and cattle farming and marks a direct assault on private property.
Over-reliance on specific geographies for agriculture means that food production can exacerbate environmental problems, or even create new ones.
Almost a billion people, just under 20% of the world’s labor force, are formally employed in agriculture.
Over the last 40 years, recombinant DNA technology has revolutionized numerous industrial sectors, including agriculture and pharmaceuticals.
So subterranean aquifers are increasingly being exploited for agriculture, power generation, and daily use in fast-growing cities (urban Asia is growing at a rate of 120,000 people per day).
Globally, 60% more food will be needed by then, with agriculture soaking up increasingly scarce freshwater.
Technologies to support sustainable agriculture already exist, with around 29% of all farms already using some form of sustainable farming techniques.
Protectionist tendencies are already apparent in certain Eastern European states, where governments are – perhaps unsurprisingly – concerned about the potential impact of trade liberalization on agriculture.
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