The costs of achieving the millennium development goals through adopting organic agriculture

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This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four case studies: Wanzai, PRC; Wuyuan, PRC; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. The results show considerable variation across the case studies, suggesting that there is no clear structure to the costs of adopting OA. Costs do depend on the efficiency with which the OA adoption programs are run. The lowest cost programs were more than ten times less expensive than the highest cost ones. A further analysis of the gains resulting from OA adoption reveals that the costs per person taken out of poverty was much lower than the World Bank's estimates, based on income growth in general or based on the detailed costs of meeting some of the more quantifiable MDGs (e.g., education, health, and environment).

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ADBI Working Paper ; No. 193

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Sustainable Development ; Agricultural Policy; Food Policy ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
• Thema: Millennium Development Goals ; Ökologischer Landbau ; Soziale Kosten ; China ; Sri Lanka ; Thailand

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Markandya, Anil ; Setboonsarng, Sununtar ; Hui, Qiao Yu ; Songkranok, Rachanee ; Stefan, Adam
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)
• (wo): Tokyo
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/53664
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ