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European Review of Agricultural Economics 2005 32(4):469-488; doi:10.1093/erae/jbi028
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Multifunctionality of agriculture: an inquiry into the complementarity between landscape preservation and food security

Rolf Jens Brunstad

The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway

Ivar Gaasland

Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway

Erling Vårdal

University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Corresponding author: Erling Vårdal, Department of Economics, University of Bergen, Herman Fossgate 6, 5007 Bergen, Norway. Telephone: (47) 55 58 92 00. Fax: (47) 55 58 92 10. E-mail: erling.vardal{at}econ.uib.no

Received February 2005; final version received September 2005

Without support, the levels of agricultural public goods such as food security and landscape preservation would fall short of demand in high-cost countries. However, as demonstrated by Norway as a case study, the current level of support is disproportionate from a public goods perspective, and the policy instruments are badly targeted at the public goods in question. Because agricultural land is a major component of both food security and landscape preservation, giving rise to a high degree of cost complementarity between the public goods, it would be more efficient to support land-extensive production techniques than production per se.

Keywords: food security, landscape preservation, public goods, jointness, agricultural policy

JEL classification: Q18, Q26


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