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Agricultural price shocks and business cycles a global warning for advanced economies
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2018
For a panel of 75 countries, we find that increases in global agricultural commodity prices that are caused by … agriculture in GDP or lower shares of non-agricultural trade in GDP; that is, characteristics that typically apply to low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846251
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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019
1960 to 2015. The model integrates several features necessary to study the problem, including an explicit agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138747
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Does climate change make foodgrain yields more unpredictable : evidence from India
Verma, Saumya; Gupta, Shreekant; Sen, Partha - 2020
How would climate change affect India’s agriculture which accounts for sixty percent of employment? We study the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177019
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Measuring the integration of staple food markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : heterogeneous infrastructure and cross border trade in the East African community
Ihle, Rico; Cramon-Taubadel, Stephan von; Zorya, Sergiy I. - 2011
rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices between 2000 and 2008 for Kenya, Tanzanian and Uganda. Distance is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011814
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Measuring the immeasurable : the evolution of the size of informal economy in the agricultural sector in the EU-15 up to 2019
Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021
This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486396
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Droughts and malnutrition in Africa
Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023
How costly are droughts to individuals' nutrition in Africa? We measure severe droughts using a detailed satellite-based vegetation index observed bi-monthly for 0.08° grids between 1982 and 2015. Across 32 African countries, conditional on individual characteristics, timing relative to growing...
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Climate change, rice crops and violence : evidence from Indonesia
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
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The causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-1961 : country-level evidence
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Li, Bingjing - 2017 - First Draft: February 15, 2017, this version: November 23, 2017
This study provides evidence that the over-export of grains aggravated the severity of China's Great Famine. We collect county-level data for the 1953-1965 period on death rates, birth rates, amounts of grain procured, output of different types of grain, crop productivity, weather conditions,...
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The UK's great demand and supply recession
Jacob, Nick; Mion, Giordano - 2020
framework and firm-level prices and quantities data for detailed products allowing us to both measure demand, and its changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387534
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Migration and climate change in rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it will also be an adaptation to future climate change....
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