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Erneute EU-Agrarreform: Umbau statt Abbau von Subventionen
Schrader, Jörg-Volker - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2004
The paper discusses the decisions on the reform of the CAP from June 2003. The decisions focus on the decoupling of the direct payments to farmers from production. This will reduce production incentives and thereby improve the allocation of resources. However, payments to farmers will hardly be...
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Environmental regulation of a global pollution externality in a bilateral trade framework: The case of global warming, China and the US
Gwatipedza, Johnson; Barbier, Edward B. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Bilateral trade and capital flows have increased substantially between the United States and China yielding economic gains to both countries. However, these beneficial bilateral relations also bring about global environmental consequences including greenhouse gas emissions. We develop a...
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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 … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
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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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Is Organic Farming Worth its Investment? The Adoption and Impact of Certified Pineapple Farming in Ghana
Kleemann, Linda; Abdulai, Awudu; Buss, Mareike - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Global food markets demand the adoption of food standards by small-scale farmers in developing countries when they enter international markets. While a conventional certification with GlobalGAP can be a market entry condition for conventional food, especially for horticultural products, organic...
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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 participation options for farmers in developing countries. This paper studies two aspects of profitability for the producers. It uses hedonic demand theory and empirical analysis to...
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Price Transmission in the Pineapple Market – What Role for Organic Fruit?
Kleemann, Linda; Effenberger, Alexandra - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
As consumers’ demand for organic products and especially organic food grows, organic certification for tropical fruit is increasingly promoted in many developing countries. Certified organic pineapple exports only started taking off after 2005 and are rapidly increasing. The organic and...
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Organic Pineapple Farming in Ghana - A Good Choice for Smallholders?
Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
As consumer demand for organic food grows, organic certification is increasingly promoted in many developing countries. Organic products earn a premium price on the market compared to conventional varieties. Hence, organic production is often seen as a valuable alternative for developing...
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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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Energy Savings via FDI? Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries
Hübler, Michael; Keller, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
In this paper we examine the influence of foreign direct investment inflows on energy intensities of developing countries empirically. We first show that a simple OLS estimation, as it is found in the literature, suggests energy intensity reductions from FDI inflows, which is consistent with the...
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