Project description
Navigating climate neutrality, agricultural productivity, and food security
The EU faces a dual challenge: achieving climate neutrality by 2050 while ensuring food security amid high greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Current policies, aimed at boosting food production to combat hunger, contribute significantly to global emissions. This dilemma forecasts a surge in direct carbon outputs from farming, exacerbating environmental strain. To address these intertwined issues, the CliAgroSec project aims to work towards a solution. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, it will create a framework that reconciles agricultural productivity with climate protection goals, navigating the complexities of policy formulation across global scales. By integrating economic and environmental models, the project seeks to balance emissions reduction with sustainable food production and equitable access.
Objective
"The European Union's goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 is crucial for transitioning to a low-carbon economy. However, ambitious reductions in greenhouse gas emissions may lead to unintended consequences, notably from current EU policies. On one hand, increasing food production for Zero Hunger (SDG 2) can escalate greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for about 34% of total anthropogenic emissions. Predictably, direct carbon emissions from agriculture will rise in the coming decade. Yet, mitigating these emissions, especially in the short term, may reduce production and raise food prices, potentially limiting access, especially in food-insecure regions. This could lead to increased poverty and stunting. Balancing emissions reduction with agricultural productivity and global food security is a critical challenge.
To avoid unintended negative consequences and optimize climate protection policy benefits, interactions between different objectives must be considered in policy formulation. The CliAgroSec project aims to create a framework exploring synergies between agricultural productivity, food security, and climate protection objectives, while acknowledging trade-offs in multi-objective policy development. This involves crafting comprehensive ""sustainable policies"" encompassing environmental, economic, and social dimensions.
The project has three specific objectives:
Elaborate on potential synergies and trade-offs between climate protection policies, agricultural productivity, and food security. Propose a theoretical framework to identify negative externalities of climate protection policies within global climate agreements.
Develop a comprehensive integrated empirical model, combining a global Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model with an agri-environmental model. Assess the effectiveness of climate protection policies across countries and scales, capturing the intricate dynamics of agricultural systems and their environmental implications."
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
43121 PARMA
Italy