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This paper builds on the global experience and Mali?s context to identify an effective nutrition approach as well as costs and benefits of key nutrition programs, as part of a resilience agenda after the crisis. It is intended to help guide the selection of the most cost-effective interventions...
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s. Whether it should be part of a global climate mitigation strategy, however, remains controversial. One of the key … temporary sequestration is beneficial as it delays climate change impacts and"buys"time for technical change in the energy … sequestration and abatement can be used to mitigate climate change. They confirm that permanent sequestration, if feasible, can be …
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Among policy instruments to control future greenhouse gas emissions, well-calibrated general intensity targets are known to lead to lower uncertainty on the amount of abatement than emissions quotas (Jotzo and Pezzey 2004). The authors test whether this result holds in a broader framework, and...
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. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital. This is especially true in the case of the Kyoto …
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The objective of this paper is to determine the ability of farmers in Africa to detect climate change, and to ascertain … how they have adapted to whatever climate change they believe has occurred. The paper also asks farmers whether they … have witnessed climate change, have not yet responded to it. The study is based on a large-scale survey of agriculturalists …
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adapt their choice of farm type and irrigation to their local climate. The results should help governments develop effective … adaptation policies in response to climate change and improve the forecasting of climate effects. The paper compares the … predicted effects of climate change using both endogenous and exogenous models of farm choice. …
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Routine"quick-and-dirty"methods of project appraisal can be so dirty in guiding project selection as to wipe out the net social gains from public investment, contend the authors, illustrating their point with a case study of irrigation projects in Vietnam. They test a common quick-and-dirty...
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The authors assess the economic effects in Egypt, under various conditions, of restricting carbon dioxide emissions. They use their model to assess the sensitivity of these effects to alternative specifications: changes in the level or timing of restrictions, changes in the rate of discount of...
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temperature but irrigated farms are more sensitive to precipitation. Examining the effects from future climate change scenarios …This study estimates the vulnerability of Latin American agriculture to climate change using a Ricardian analysis of … land value and net revenue are sensitive to climate. Both small farms and large farms have a hill-shaped relationship with …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. From a model of optimal use, it derives and then estimates a deforestation equation on county-level data for the period 1978 to 1988. The data include a deforestation measure from satellite images, which is a great...
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