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The Impact of Price Intervention Policies to Improve Dietary Quality in Spain

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  • Gil, Jose Maria
  • Angulo, Ana Maria
  • Mtimet, Nadhem

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Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed significantly to the “obesity epidemic” by making fattening foods relatively cheap and abundant and, symmetrically, that taxing “unhealthy” commodities or subsidizing “healthy” commodities would contribute to reducing obesity rates. This paper makes three contributions. First, we review evidence from the literature on the impacts on food consumption and obesity resulting from subsidies applied in the past to production or consumption of farm commodities. Second, we develop and present new arguments and preliminary evidence on the impacts of past government investments in agricultural R&D on food consumption and obesity—through research-induced increases in agricultural productivity and the consequences for prices, production, and consumption of farm commodities. Third, we consider and compare the economic efficiency of hypothetical agricultural research policies (changing the orientation of agricultural research investments) versus hypothetical agricultural commodity subsidies and taxes as alternative mechanisms for encouraging consumption of healthy food or discouraging consumption of unhealthy food, or both.

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  • Gil, Jose Maria & Angulo, Ana Maria & Mtimet, Nadhem, 2009. "The Impact of Price Intervention Policies to Improve Dietary Quality in Spain," 2009 Pre-Conference Workshop, August 16, 2009, Diet and Obesity: Role of Prices and Policies 53337, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:iaae9p:53337
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.53337
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    Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy;
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