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This chapter considers the linkages between agricultural development and rural non-farm activities. The chapter is motivated by growing evidence that non-farm activities provide an increasingly important share of rural incomes in many low-income questions, questions about whether increasing...
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The risks of carbon leakage associated with climate policies in the agricultural sector remains under-researched. Studies to date suggest that carbon pricing policies implemented by a single country, or small group of countries, reduce global emissions but also affect the international...
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from agriculture, even when it is applied in a small group of countries, provided that producers facing the tax can make …
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Climate change increases weather variability, exacerbating agricultural risk in poor countries. Risk-averse farmers are unable to tailor their planting decisions to the coming season, and underinvest in profitable inputs. Accurate, long-range forecasts enable farmers to optimize for the season...
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This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 …, and carbon dioxide response functions are used to calculate the impacts on agriculture. Temperature and precipitation … overall growth of agriculture has been small, contributing between 2.6% and 5.4% of overall growth. This effect has been …
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studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … studies that focus on the United States to understand the effects of migration from poor to rich countries, our context is … natives. Finally, we find that it is unlikely that immigration's effect on agriculture slowed Brazil's structural …
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catalogue of targets and policies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU …
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Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
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