Economics of Sustainable Food - Smart Policies for Health and the Planet

Informationen zum Autor Nicoletta Batini is a scholar of innovative monetary and fiscal policy and is a leading expert in the design of macroeconomic strategies to deal with the climate change/public health nexus. Prior to joining the International Monetary Fund's Independent Evaluation Office, she was Advisor of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey, and Director of the International Economics and Policy Office of the Treasury in Italy. Klappentext Producing food industrially like we do today causes tremendous global economic losses in terms of malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation. But because the food industry does not bear those costs and the price tag for these losses does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often ignored by economists and policymakers. The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book's multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals. Zusammenfassung International experts come together with policy recommendations that can make the global food system healthier and more sustainable.

Product details

• Authors: Nicoletta Batini, Nicoletta (EDT) Batini
• Assisted by: Nicoletta Batini (Editor), Batini Nicoletta (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781642831610
• ISBN: 978-1-64283-161-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; NATURE / Natural Resources, Business & Economics / General, Economics, finance, business & management, Food security & supply, Food security and supply, Economics, finance, business and management