About my research
Society must respond in a multitude of ways to limit global temperature increase below two degrees. One possible avenue for change is to increase the use of bioenergy from agricultural biomass, to replace fossil-based energy. Agricultural bioenergy is not sufficiently profitable today and policy is required to boost the sector. With an increased use of agricultural biomass for energy comes however changes to land use and agricultural production generally. This will be accompanied by risk for adverse environmental consequences and by effects on the economic structure of the sector and food production, and will almost certainly cause conflicts between societal goals. Policy must hence be carefully designed to steer agricultural bioenergy production toward a solution where the societal benefits from production of food, feed and fibre, are in balance with environmental benefits. In my PhD work I use integrated modelling to study farm production decisions and land use changes in Sweden in response to policy change, to evaluate policy towards a societally optimal solution. A part of a larger multidisciplinary project, the contribution of my PhD project is to bring the economic perspective into the analysis of policy for sustainable agricultural biomass.
About me
My academic background is in economics (BSc) and economic history (MSc) at Lund university. Prior to starting my doctoral studies I worked for four years as a policy analyst at the School for Business and Economics at Lund university, mainly studying economic and environmental consequences of the European Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). My interests are policy, economics, and economic modelling.
Publications
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Subventioner till nötkreatur motverkar klimatmålen
Cecilia Larsson
(2021) Kristianstadsbladet , p.8-9
Newspaper articleEffects of farm type on food production, landscape openness, grassland biodiversity, and greenhouse gas emissions in mixed agricultural-forestry regions
Niklas Boke Olén, Fabian Roger, Mark V. Brady, Cecilia Larsson, Georg K.S. Andersson, et al.
(2021) Agricultural Systems, 189
Journal articleNaturbetesmarkens framtid – en fråga om lönsamhet
Cecilia Larsson, Niklas Boke-Olén, Mark V. Brady
(2020) AgriFood Rapport
ReportThe effect of farm type on ecosystem services in Swedish mixed agricultural-forestry regions
Niklas Boke-Olén, Fabian Roger, Mark V. Brady, Cecilia Larsson, Georg K.S. Andersson, et al.
(2020)
PosterReformen av CAP 2013 : Lärdomar för en bättre jordbrukspolitik efter 2020
Cecilia Larsson, Mark V. Brady, Jordan Hristov, Helena Johansson
(2018) AgriFood Rapport
ReportImpacts of direct payments : Lessons for CAP post-2020 from a quantitative analysis
Helena Johansson, Mark Brady, Cecilia Larsson, Ewa Rabinowicz, Torbjörn Jansson, et al.
(2017) AgriFood Rapport
ReportSamverkan kring habitatförvaltning höjer avkastningen i jordbruket
Cecilia Larsson, Mark Brady, Ronggang Cong
(2016) AgriFood Policy Brief
ReportWomen’s Education, Empowerment, and Contraceptive Use in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings from Recent Demographic and Health Surveys
Maria Stanfors, Cecilia Larsson
(2014) Etude de la Population Africaine, 28 p.1022-1034
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