@article{Lichtenberg:288119,
      recid = {288119},
      author = {Lichtenberg, Erik},
      title = {Harmonizing Agricultural and Environmental Policies},
      journal = {Journal of Rural Development/Nongchon-Gyeongje},
      address = {2001-12},
      number = {1071-2019-1660},
      year = {2001},
      abstract = {I discuss three general lessons drawn from economic theory  and historical experience for improving the performance of  agriculture with respect to environmental protection and  resource conservation. First, government development of  environment­friendly, resource-conserving technologies and  government investment in improvements in human capital are  critical for making it feasible to reconcile agricultural  productivity with environmental quality. Second, because  new technologies evoke responses that are difficult to  anticipate, it is essential to maintain proper incentives  for environmental protection and resource conservation  (e.g., taxes on the use of polluting inputs, setting prices  of resources at their social oppatunity costs, establishing  clear property rights). Third, agriculture sector policies  like price supports, input subsidies, limitations on  imports, and settlement promotion policies are important  causes of environmental and resource degradation in many  countries; thus, agriculture sector policy reform is  necessary to improve environmental protection and resource  conservation in agriculture. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/288119},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.288119},
}