Removal of Subsidies for Dryland Cropping

Subsidies on dryland cropping have had direct and indirect environmental impacts, in pushing livestock into more marginal areas and in encouraging unsustainable build-ups of livestock around sources of cheap cereal feed.

Such subsidies should be phased out.

Oram, P. 1998. The Influence of Government Policies on Livestock production and the Environment in West Asia and North Africa (WANA). In A.J.Nell (ed) Livestock and the Environment: International Conference, IAC, Wageningen.

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