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Growing divide: Agricultural environment policies impact food costs in a different way in bad and rich nations

Growing divide: Agricultural environment policies impact food costs in a different way in bad and rich nations

Science and Nature
Farmers are getting less of what customers invest in food, as modern-day food systems progressively direct expenses towards value-added elements like processing, transportation, and marketing. A brand-new research study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK reveals that this impact forms how food costs react to farming environment policies: While value-added elements buffer customer rate modifications in wealthier nations, low-income nations-- where farming expenses control-- face higher obstacles in handling food cost boosts due to environment policies. "In high-income nations like the U.S. or Germany, farmers get less than a quarter of food costs, compared to over 70 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa, where farming expenses comprise a bigger part of food costs," states Dav...