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characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper “soft measures” and more costly “hard” irrigation …
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. The main results of the study point out on the one hand the limited influence of climate change on world food supply and …
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, freshwater availability and soil quality. Agriculture also plays an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. Thus …
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these regions the most exposed sector is agriculture, and the impact on crop productivity is by far the most important …
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levels proposed by the European Community; the rest of the world is represented by 21 geo-political countries/regions. It is …
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This paper uses a dynamic CGE model to assess the intertemporal and spatial dimension of technology spillovers embodied in international trade within a climate and trade policy framework. Three are the main contributions of the study. First, to include endogenous factor-biased technical change...
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evolution of all indicators over time throughout the world, and (ii) the aggregation methodology to reconcile them in one … current sustainability at world level differs from what the traditional measure of well-being, the GDP, depicts, highlighting … the trade-offs among different components of sustainability. Moreover, in the next decade a slight decrease in world …
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, production and consumption patterns. We use a new dynamic, multi-regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model of the world … the world? Should forecasts of human-induced greenhouse gases emissions be revised, once climate change impacts are taken …
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China’s emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population …
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Climate change mitigation can be achieved, according to many, by means of Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Tropics (REDD). Within the climate change policy debate we thus find discussions on how to reduce GHG emissions by designing appropriate REDD programmes...
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