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Chinese food security and climate change : agriculture futures
Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - 2014
Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
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Chinese food security and climate change: Agriculture futures
Ye, Liming; Tang, Huajun; Wu, Wenbin; Yang, Peng; … - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 8 (2014), pp. 1-39
Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954733
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Policy strategies and challenges for climate change mitigation in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector
Henderson, Ben; Frank, Stefan; Havlik, Petr; Valin, Hugo - 2021
This study uses GLOBIOM ‒ the most detailed global economic model of agriculture, land use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ‒ to assess the effectiveness of different policies in cutting net emissions from the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector, with a view to helping...
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Food Policy in a Warming World
Hsiao, Allan; Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Do governments systematically intervene in agricultural markets in response to climate shocks? If so, what are the aggregate and distributional consequences? We construct a global dataset of agricultural policies and extreme heat exposure by country and crop since 1980. We find that extreme heat...
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Mitigating the impact of extreme weather events on agricultural markets through trade
Adenäuer, Marcel - 2023
Extreme weather events can disrupt agricultural markets, but agricultural trade can help address subsequent food security concerns. Using the Aglink-Cosimo model, this stochastic scenario analysis sheds light on the complex relationships between trade and food security in an environment where...
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Low-Emission Development Strategies (LEDS): Technical, Institutional and Policy Lessons
Clapp, Christa; Briner, Gregory; Karousakis, Katia - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2010
and analysing reliable data on mitigation costs and climate change impacts; identifying and addressing barriers to …
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Monitoring and Tracking Long-Term Finance to Support Climate Action
Buchner, Barbara; Brown, Jessica; Corfee-Morlot, Jan - Environment Directorate, Organisation de Coopération … - 2011
The Cancún Agreements formalise a collective commitment by developed countries to provide new and additional funding for action on climate change in developing countries both in the short- and longer-term. This collective financial commitment requires a system to measure, report and verify...
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Monitoring, evaluation and learning for climate risk management
Noltze, Martin - 2021
This working paper focuses on the role of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for promoting effective climate risk management. It aims to introduce a conceptual framework that governments and development co-operation providers can draw on when developing MEL frameworks for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630398
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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
-income countries, ethical considerations, the importance of not double-counting mitigation funding as development aid, and policy steps …
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Adaptation Can Help Mitigation: An Integrated Approach to Post-2012 Climate Policy
Bosello, Francesco; Carraro, Carlo; De Cian, Enrica - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity building to analyse the optimal portfolio of … investments in mitigation followed by large adaptation expenditures a few decades later. Hence, the possibility to adapt does not …
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