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The Costs of Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through Adopting Organic Agriculture

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  • Anil Markandya
  • Sununtar Setboonsarng
  • Qiao Yu Hui
  • Adam Stefan

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This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four case studies: Wanzai, PRC; Wuyuan, PRC; Kandy, Sri Lanka; and Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. [Working paper no: 193]. URL:[http://www.adbi.org/files/2010.02.09.wp193.cost.mdg.organic.agriculture.pdf].

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  • Anil Markandya & Sununtar Setboonsarng & Qiao Yu Hui & Adam Stefan, 2011. "The Costs of Achieving the Millennium Development Goals through Adopting Organic Agriculture," Working Papers id:4395, eSocialSciences.
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    Keywords

    MDGs; organic agriculture; United Nations; Millennium Development goals; Sri Lanka; Thailand; education; health; environment; PRC; household; poverty; gender disparity; maternal health; child mortality; HIV/AIDS; malaria and other diseases; environmental sustainability; development; primary education; children schooling;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q01 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - General - - - Sustainable Development
    • Q18 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; Animal Welfare Policy
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth

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