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This country note briefly summarizes information relevant to both climate change and agriculture in Argentina, with … focus on policy developments (including action plans and programs) and institutional make-up. Argentina is one of the four …. Agriculture (including land use change and forestry) is the largest contributor to green house gas (GHG) emissions in the country …
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and peaked in mid-2008, concerns remain for other reasons, among them the higher market-clearing price levels that now … reduce grain PHL in SSA over the last 30 years and from experts in the field. These experts were identified and asked to …
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The recurrent global food price spikes in 2008 and 2010 rekindled interest in the use of national food grain stockpiles … support policies in the developed countries. However, large 'buffer' or 'intervention' stocks, as the grain accumulations in … practitioners, revisits the issues and evidence concerning grain stocks. It starts with an open mind concerning stocks as policy …
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"This paper analyzes the economic growth impact of organized political violence. First, the authors articulate the theoretical underpinnings of the growth impact of political violence in a popular model of growth under uncertainty. The authors show that, under plausible assumptions regarding...
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1. Natural Resources and Conflict: What We Can Do -- 2. The Natural Resource Curse: How Wealth Can -- 3. Who Gets the Money? Reporting Resource Revenues -- 4. Where Did It Come From? Commodity Tracking Systems -- 5....
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Argentina approaches its bicentennial as an independent republic and has a window of opportunity in social protection … beneficiaries slowly declined beginning in 2003, and was at nearly one-third of its maximum value by early 2008. This reduction was …
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