The past decade has seen the transition of agricultural economics from perceived irrelevance to being seen as key to saving the world from an array of grand challenges. These challenges include global climate change, non-communicable diseases, hunger and poverty. These challenges require international cooperation. Such cooperation is undermined by global conflicts in which agricultural trade is disrupted either to incentivise policy change or through conflict. The world is vulnerable if trade can be exploited for political power or disrupted by other actions taken for political power. Agricultural economists are uniquely situated to address these issues.

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论农业经济学的政策关联性

过去十年，农业经济学从被认为无关紧要的事物转变为被视为拯救世界免受一系列重大挑战的关键。这些挑战包括全球气候变化、非传染性疾病、饥饿和贫困。这些挑战需要国际合作。这种合作受到全球冲突的破坏，在全球冲突中，农业贸易要么是为了激励政策变化，要么是通过冲突而受到干扰。如果贸易可以被利用来获取政治权力或被其他获取政治权力的行动所扰乱，世界就会变得脆弱。农业经济学家在解决这些问题方面具有独特的优势。