Quantifying the economic benefits and costs of agricultural systems

Bc. Darius Maraulas

Diplomová práce

Kvantifikace ekonomických benefitů a nákladů zemědělských systémů.

Anotace:

Economic growth and an ever rising world population put pressure on food demands and agricultural products. To feed nearly 9 billion people by 2050, a new vision is needed to ensure food supply, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity through agriculture. From national statistics it is possible to derive the gross value added by agricultural systems. For example the annual gross value added by UK agriculture in 2007 was about 5.6 billion. Researchers have also estimated the cost of UK agriculture on non-provisioning ecosystem services. Spencer et al. (2008) estimated that the net environmental cost of UK agriculture was about 1.2 billion in 2007. By adding the two values, we can derive an annual net benefit of UK agriculture to society of about 4.4 billion. The aim of sustainable intensification is to increase this overall value by increasing production values and/or environmental values. The aim of this project is to apply a graphical approach of plotting the value of provisioning services against the value of other ecosystem services to the agricultural and forestry sectors in the UK, and also for different countries within the UK.

Abstract:

Economic growth and an ever rising world population put pressure on food demands and agricultural products. To feed nearly 9 billion people by 2050, a new vision is needed to ensure food supply, environmental sustainability and economic opportunity through agriculture. From national statistics it is possible to derive the gross value added by agricultural systems. For example the annual gross value added by UK agriculture in 2007 was about 5.6 billion. Researchers have also estimated the cost of UK agriculture on non-provisioning ecosystem services. Spencer et al. (2008) estimated that the net environmental cost of UK agriculture was about 1.2 billion in 2007. By adding the two values, we can derive an annual net benefit of UK agriculture to society of about 4.4 billion. The aim of sustainable intensification is to increase this overall value by increasing production values and/or environmental values. The aim of this project is to apply a graphical approach of plotting the value of provisioning services against the value of other ecosystem services to the agricultural and forestry sectors in the UK, and also for different countries within the UK.

Klíčová slova

Sustainability, Environmental Accounts, Ecosystem Services, Provisioning Services

Keywords

Environmental Accounts, Ecosystem Services, Provisioning Services, Sustainability

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 14. 4. 2015

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: doc. Ing. Mansoor Maitah, Ph.D. Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Provozně ekonomická fakulta

Magisterský studijní program / obor:
Economics and Management / European Agrarian Diplomacy