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Benefits of Organic Agriculture as a Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy for Developing Countries
Muller, Adrian - 2009
Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option …. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541897
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Climate Change, Risk and Grain Production in China
Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua; Grün, Carola - 2011
This paper employs the production function-based method proposed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979) to explicitly analyze production risk in the context of Chinese grain farming and climate change, and test for potential endogeneity of climate factors in Chinese grain production. Our results indicate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329992
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The Economic Impact of Weather Variability on China’s Rice Sector
Chen, Shuai; Chen, Xiaoguang; Xu, Jintao - 2014
This paper provides the first county-level analysis of the impacts of weather variability on rice yield in China, by compiling a unique panel on irrigated single-season rice and daily weather data. We found that temperature and solar radiation had statistically significant impacts on rice yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959420
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Is Weather Really Additive in Agricultural Production? Implications for Climate Change Impacts
Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel - 2013
Recent reduced-form econometric models of climate change impacts on agriculture assume climate is additive. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729085
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Crop-Livestock Inter-linkages and Climate Change Implications for Ethiopia’s Agriculture: A Ricardian Approach
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Mekonnen, Alemu; Deribe, Rahel; … - 2013
Ethiopia, have emphasized only crop agriculture and disregarded the role of livestock. In this research, we analyze climate … beneficial to livestock agriculture, while it is harmful to the Ethiopian economy from the crop agriculture point of view …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755762
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Climate Change and the Ethiopian Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Stage, Jesper; Mekonnen, Alemu; … - 2011
This paper analyses the economic impacts of climate change on Ethiopia’s agriculture using a countrywide computable … general equilibrium model. The impacts on agriculture are based on results from a Ricardian model where current (and future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643023
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What really matters: Discounting, technological change and sustainable climate
Müller-Fürstenberger, Georg; Stephan, Gunter - 2010
This paper discusses the interplay between the choice of the discount rate, greenhouse gas mitigation and endogenous technological change. Neglecting the issue of uncertainty it is shown that the green golden rule stock of atmospheric carbon is uniquely determined, but is not affected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316057
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Strategic behavior in IEAs: When and why countries joined the Kyoto Protocol
Almer, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2010
We empirically analyze the formation of international environmental agreements within a political economy framework. We develop a theoretical model of state dependent net benefits of ratification predicting (i) strategic behavior with respect to the timing of ratification and (ii) that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316041
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Global climate change and the funding of adaptation
Buob, Seraina; Stephan, Gunter - 2008
Mitigation and adaptation are the most important strategies in combating global climate change. It is expected that in a post Kyoto world industrialized countries have to engage in greenhouse gas abatement, and to support developing countries in adapting to climate change. Within the framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316063
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Trading off generations: Infinitely-lived agent versus OLG
Schneider, Maik T.; Traeger, Christian; Winkler, Ralph - 2010
The prevailing literature discusses intergenerational trade-offs predominantly in infinitely-lived agent models despite the finite lifetime of individuals. We discuss these trade-offs in a continuous time OLG framework and relate the results to the infinitely-lived agent setting. We identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316064