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Can Numerical Models Estimate Indirect Land-use Change?

Brunelle, Thierry; Dumas, Patrice - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

Motivated by the conclusions from various modelling studies, modifications to the bioenergy sector regulations are under way in Europe and in the USA to account for emissions from indirect land-use change (ILUC). Despite their influence on the policy-making, evaluations of the capacity of...

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The Nexus Land-Use Model, an Approach Articulating Biophysical Potentials and Economic Dynamics to Model Competition for Land-Uses

Souty, F.; Brunelle, T.; Dumas, P.; Dorin, B.; Ciais, P.; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012

, it makes it possible to explore interactions among different types of demand for biomass for food and animal feed, in a …Interactions between food demand, biomass energy and forest preservation are driving both food prices and land … biophysics and economics into a single coherent framework to calculate crop yields, food prices, and resulting pasture and …

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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies between Global Conventions through Land Use Changes: Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degradat...

Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation and food security through the increases in crop yields. The framework … desertification and food security. Their synergies are targeted by providing procedures for assessing and identifying simultaneously … carbon sinks, potential increases in plant diversity, measures to prevent land degradation and enhancements in food security …

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Estimating Ricardian Models With Panel Data

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...

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Simple Myths and Basic Maths about Greening Irrigation

Gómez, Carlos M.; Pérez-Blanco, C. Dionisio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015

Greening the economy is mostly about improving water governance and not only about putting the existing resource saving technical alternatives into practice. Focusing on the second and forgetting the first risks finishing with a highly efficient use of water services at the level of each...

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Agri-Environmental Policies in a Transition Economy: Using a Choice Experiment to Value Agricultural Biodiversity on Hungarian Small Farms

Birol, Ekin; Gyovai, Ágnes; Smale, Melinda - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

have served important functions related to food security, diet quality, and local culture. Some policies related to …

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Agricultural Insurances Based on Meteorological Indices: Realizations, Methods and Research Agenda

Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

In many low-income countries, agriculture is mostly rain-fed and yields highly depend on climatic factors. Furthermore, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs. Insurances based on meteorological indices could...

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The Impact of Protest Responses in Choice Experiments

Barrio, Melina; Loureiro, Maria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

Not much attention has been given to protest responses in choice experiments (CE). Using follow-up statements, we are able to identify protest responses and compute welfare estimates with and without the inclusion of such protest responses. We conclude that protest responses are fairly common in...

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On Biology and Technology: The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies

Goeschl, Timo; Swanson, Timothy - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

This paper considers those sectors of the economy that operate under the same regimes of rewarding private innovators as others, but differ in that they face recurring problems of resistance, as occur in the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. This recurrence originates in the natural...

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The Effect of Risk, Ambiguity and Coordination on Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change: A Framed Field Experiment

Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Naranjo, Maria - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers react to different levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable...

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