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Russia's food security and climate change: Looking into the future

Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

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 agricultural crops may expand toward the north,...

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Modeling linkages between climate policy and land use: An Overview

Werf, Edwin van der; Peterson, Sonja - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economy-climate models. This paper gives an overview...

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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops

Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Ex-ante regulations and ex-post liabilities for using a new technology will induce additional costs for adopters. The standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of negotiating possible cost reductions. The case analysed is...

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Economic Impact of Climate Change: Simulations with a Regionalized Climate-Economy Model

Deke, Oliver; Hooss, Kurt Georg; Kasten, Christiane; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

Climate change affects the physical and biological system in many regions of the world. The extent to which human systems will suffer economically from climate change depends on the adaptive capabilities within a region as well as across regions. We use an economic General-Equilibrium model and...

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Boda-bodas rule: Non-agricultural activities and their inequality implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Diversification into non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be broadly classified as either survival-led or opportunity-led. The existence of these two types of non-agricultural activities implies a U-shaped relationship between the share of income derived from non-agricultural...

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Income Diversification and Poverty in a Growing Agricultural Economy: The Case of Ghana

Lay, Jann; Schüler, Dana - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper analyses changes in income portfolios of rural households and its determinants for the case of Ghana in the 1990s. Our analysis shows that, contrary to common beliefs, rural Ghana has seen major economic transformation, as households increasingly diversify their livelihoods by both...

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Boda Bodas Rule: Non-agricultural Activities and Their Inequality Implications in Western Kenya

Lay, Jann; M'Mukaria, George Michuki; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Engagement in non-agricultural activities in rural areas can be classified into survival-led or opportunity-led. Survival-led diversification would decrease inequality by increasing the incomes of poorer households and thus reduce poverty. By contrast, opportunity-led diversification would...

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Organic Pineapple Farming in Ghana - A Good Choice for Smallholders?

Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

. Organic products earn a premium price on the market compared to conventional varieties. Hence, organic production is often … the pineapple sector in Ghana and extensive data from the European market, this paper tries to shed light on the … fruit and large farms benefit from economies of scale, production for the export market is a realistic option for both …

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Knowing where organic markets move next: An analysis of developing countries in the pineapple market

Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

As consumers' demand for organic products grows, selling organic products potentially opens up profitable market … the strongly growing pineapple market as an example. This analysis confirms a nonlinear dependence of the organic market … market and hence the number of farmers in developing countries who can potentially benefit from growing organic products. …

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Organic Certification, Agro-Ecological Practices and Return on Investment: Farm Level Evidence from Ghana

Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

The recent empirical literature on economic sustainability of certified export crops shows that certification standards that enhance yields are important for improving farm revenues and farmer welfare. However, limited evidence exists on the impact of organic certification on the adoption of...

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