Efficient costs and policies for emissions control of nitrogen fertilization in Mexican agriculture
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29312/remexca.v9i7.1673Keywords:
environmental costs, environmental fiscal policy, general equilibrium of the economyAbstract
From 2000 to 2010, global greenhouse gas emissions not only have not decreased, but have grown to unprecedented levels, thereby increasing the possibility of catastrophic climate change. In 2012, the productive and social activity of humanity produced 52.76 million giga tons of carbon dioxide equivalent ( ); Mexico issued 663 425 giga tons, 1.3% of the total. Mexican agriculture and livestock contributed 12.3% to the national total. However, the relevance of this problem has been neglected in the investigation of the environmental costs that these emissions imply. The objectives of this research were: 1) to estimate the economic costs of nitrous oxide emissions produced by nitrogen fertilization in Mexican agriculture; and 2) propose, based on them, a fiscal policy for the efficient control of these emissions. The method applied was the general equilibrium of the global economy with emissions. It was concluded that both the use of chemical fertilizers in Mexican agriculture and the agricultural policy are inefficient, so two alternative and efficient policies for the control of these emissions are proposed. The Mexican government must suspend fertilizer subsidies. This would have a negative impact on production, so that efficient emissions control policies must be accompanied by visionary science and technology policies that develop production, keeping emissions within the non-catastrophic levels of climate change.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The authors who publish in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas accept the following conditions:
In accordance with copyright laws, Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas recognizes and respects the authors’ moral right and ownership of property rights which will be transferred to the journal for dissemination in open access. Invariably, all the authors have to sign a letter of transfer of property rights and of originality of the article to Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agrícolas y Pecuarias (INIFAP) [National Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Livestock Research]. The author(s) must pay a fee for the reception of articles before proceeding to editorial review.
All the texts published by Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas —with no exception— are distributed under a Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0), which allows third parties to use the publication as long as the work’s authorship and its first publication in this journal are mentioned.
The author(s) can enter into independent and additional contractual agreements for the nonexclusive distribution of the version of the article published in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas (for example include it into an institutional repository or publish it in a book) as long as it is clearly and explicitly indicated that the work was published for the first time in Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Agrícolas.
For all the above, the authors shall send the Letter-transfer of Property Rights for the first publication duly filled in and signed by the author(s). This form must be sent as a PDF file to: revista_atm@yahoo.com.mx; cienciasagricola@inifap.gob.mx; remexca2017@gmail.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license.