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The risk of losing income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing a productive landscape and is, of course, hard to estimate or even “guesstimate” empirically. Moreover, the costs associated with investments in adaptation to climate are...
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change has been negligible to date, but the potential to contribute to mitigation climate change at the regional level is …
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potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation. While mitigation of greenhouse gases can be … within-group levels of mitigation. We compare low-vulnerability and high-vulnerability treatments by varying the magnitude of … disaster across treatments. Our results show that there is no significant difference in the level of mitigation across these …
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for rural communities and has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This article is a short review of this topic …. Adaptation and mitigation based on organic agriculture can build on well-established practice because organic agriculture is a …. The financial requirements of organic agriculture as an adaptation or mitigation strategy are low. Further research is …
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Much of the guidance about potential impacts of reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) speculates how efforts would be implemented and draws lessons from other mechanisms, such as payments for ecosystem services (PES). However, with few REDD activities underway, little...
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This study measured the discount rates of a sample of 262 farm households in the Ethiopian highlands, using a time preference experiment with real payoffs. In general, the median discount rate was very high—more than double the interest rate on the outstanding debt—and varied systematically...
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This study uses a simple theory model to examine how time preferences influence food choices made by individuals, which in turn have implications for their future health. The theory results demonstrate that individuals with higher bias for the present or lower patience will have poorer health...
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Recent reduced-form econometric models of climate change impacts on agriculture assume climate is additive. This is reflected in climate regressors that are aggregated over several months that include the growing season. In this paper I develop a simple model to show how this assumption imposes...
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A concern of many environmentalists is that the use of biomass energy will decimate the forests. Searchinger et al. (2008, 2009) examined this issue related to corn ethanol and suggested that substituting corn ethanol for petroleum would increase carbon emissions associated with the land...
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Current and proposed greenhouse gas cap-and-trade systems allow regulated entities to offset abatement requirements by paying unregulated entities to abate. These offsets from unregulated entities are believed to contain system costs and stabilize allowance prices. However, the supply of offsets...
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