Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment
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Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment
Date Written: January 1, 2021
Abstract
This paper reviews the feedbacks between structural transformation and agriculture, on the
one hand, and climate and the natural environment, on the other. The longstanding, dominant
economic development narrative largely ignores nature’s influence on factor productivity and
stocks, even as it increasingly illustrates how agricultural technological change and economic
growth affect nature. We articulate some of the missing linkages and pose a range of policy
research questions worth exploration concerning structural transformation and the complex
feedback among agriculture, nature, and economic growth processes, especially in the low-income agrarian nations of the Global South.
Keywords: economic development, structural transformation, agriculture, climate, environment, feedbacks.
JEL Classification: O13, Q10, Q54
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