@article{Saunders:14552,
      recid = {14552},
      author = {Saunders, Caroline M. and Roningen, Vernon O.},
      title = {TRADE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. LINKING A PARTIAL EQUILIBRIUM  TRADE MODEL WITH PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTAL  CONSEQUENCES},
      address = {2001},
      number = {939-2016-74537},
      series = {Conference Paper},
      pages = {21},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {This paper was presented at the INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN  LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS SYMPOSIUM in Auckland, New Zealand,  January 18-19, 2001.  The Symposium was sponsored by: the  International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium, the  Venture Trust, Massey University, New Zealand, and the  Centre for Applied Economics and Policy Studies, Massey  University.

Dietary changes, especially in developing  countries, are driving a massive increase in demand for  livestock products.  The objective of this symposium was to  examine the consequences of this phenomenon, which some  have even called a "revolution." How are dietary patterns  changing, and can increased demands for livestock products  be satisfied from domestic resources? If so, at what cost?   What will be the flow-on impacts, for example, in terms of  increased demands for feedgrains and the pressures for  change within marketing systems?

A supply-side response  has been the continued development of large-scale,  urban-based industrial livestock production systems that in  many cases give rise to environmental concerns.  If  additional imports seem required, where will they originate  and what about food security in the importing regions?  How  might market access conditions be re-negotiated to make  increased imports achievable?  Other important issues  discussed involved food safety, animal health and welfare  and the adoption of biotechnology, and their interactions  with the negotiation of reforms to domestic and trade  policies.

Individual papers from this conference are  available on AgEcon Search.  If you would like to see the  complete agenda and set of papers from this conference,  please visit the IATRC Symposium web page at:   http://www1.umn.edu/iatrc.intro.htm},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/14552},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.14552},
}