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Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …
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agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …
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The present study was undertaken to examine the health and sustainability of RNFS units and the remedial measures … crane, boring machine and construction material), small business and agro-based units with 2002-03 as the reference year.[Evaluation …
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, with specific reference to ethics, the labour market and environmental sustainability. As such, the paper responds to a …
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This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the …:[http://www.adbi.org/files/2010.02.09.wp193.cost.mdg.organic.agriculture.pdf]. …
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sustainability and environmental sustainability and suggests desirable changes. The focus is on reduction in CO2 emissions. [WORKING …
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The future of almost any business depends on the sustainability of water resources. One of the global corporations …) and environmental sustainability strategies have been identified following a critical literature review on CSR and … sustainability, and TCCC Sustainability Review as well as an analysis of CCI Turkey’s annual and CSR reports. [Paper presented at the …
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This paper provides empirical evidence of the impact of female intra-household decision-making power on dairy productivity in India, based on evidence from a household-level dataset which was collected in 2008 in 50 villages spread over 5 districts in Andhra Pradesh, a state in the South of...
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The effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages are analysed over the course of the agricultural production cycle. It is shown theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...
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A developing economy like India is often characterised by a labour market with demand and supply of labour and a wage that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household to reach their target income; what they consider as means of a decent living. Envisaging...
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