Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment

37 Pages Posted: 1 Oct 2021

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Christopher B. Barrett

Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

Cornell University

Trinh Pham

Cornell University

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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

Suggested Citation

Barrett, Christopher B. and Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel and Pham, Trinh, Structural Transformation, Agriculture, Climate and the Environment (January 1, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3933016 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3933016

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Trinh Pham

Cornell University ( email )

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