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Radical changes took place with respect to several agricultural policies in Ethiopia in 1990-91. Different agricultural technologies were being delivered by several international agencies. Shifts in government policies and technological intervention would induce changes in the production...
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Physical resources such as land, labour and livestock, and nonphysical resources such as indigenous knowledge and institutions of producers in the grain surplus and deficit regions of the Central Highlands of Ethiopia are examined under situation of environmental and policy risks. Frequency...
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Agricultural information and indigenous knowledge were examined among peasants of the central Ethiopian highlands. Measures of central tendency, logical explanation, descriptive analysis, problem solving tests, scoring and logit analysis were performed. The findings indicate that information...
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Multidisciplinary research methods such as observatory, participatory and multivariate regression analysis were employed to examine goals and strategies of two peasant communities in the Central highlands of Ethiopia. Continuing the family tradition of participating in social networks is found...
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An aggregate measure of production efficiency involving crop and livestock enterprises is examined in the Selale and Ada regions of Ethiopia using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In general, farmers in regions more suitable to crop production (Ada) tend to attain higher production efficiency...
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Several studies have shown the environmental and health impacts of emission of criteria air pollutants such as SO2, NOx … health affected by these pollutants over the past two decades. Furthermore, the study will implement a method called linear … and the human health. Finally, the study will determine whether or not the changes observed over the past two decades with …
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Given that China is already the world’s largest carbon emitter and its emissions continue to rise rapidly in line with … its industrialization and urbanization, there is no disagreement that China eventually needs to take on binding greenhouse … gas emissions caps. However, the key challenges are when that would occur and what credible interim targets China would …
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Chinese products to the U.S. market, even given China’s own recent announcement to voluntarily seek to reduce its carbon … open the possibility for the U.S. and China to make the commitments that each wants from the other side, the inclusion of … imported products. Being targeted by such border carbon adjustment measures, China needs to, at a right time, indicate a …
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change to the change in China’s energy consumption in the 1980s. However, no detailed analysis to date has been done to … filled this gap by investigating the change in energy consumption in China’s industrial sector in the 1990s, based on the … growth rate dramatically in line with the belief that the growth rate of China’s GDP may be overestimated. …
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AIJ/JI remains virtually unknown to the majority of social and economic sectors in China as in most developing countries …, it is still unrealistic to expect that AIJ/JI projects with China work as smoothly and fast as the developed countries … wish. This underlines the need to promote JI through pilot projects in China's interest and capacity building in China in …
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