Experiments in globalisation, food security and land use decision making.

ABSTRACT: The globalisation of trade affects land use, food production and environments around the world. In principle, globalisation can maximise productivity and efficiency if competition prompts specialisation on the basis of productive capacity. In reality, however, such specialisation is often constrained by practical or political barriers, including those intended to ensure national or regional food security. These are likely to produce globally sub-optimal distributions of land uses. Both outcomes are subject to the responses of individual land managers to economic and environmental stimuli, and these responses are known to be variable and often (economically) irrational. We investigate the consequences of stylised food security policies and globalisation of agricultural markets on land use p

SUBMITTER: Brown C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4250087 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature