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Hertel, Thomas W. - 2017

Although much has been written about climate change and poverty as distinct and complex problems, the link between them …

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What is the Social Value of Second-Generation Biofuels?

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2017

What is second-generation biofuel technology worth to global society? A dynamic, computable partial equilibrium model (called FABLE) is used to assess changes in global land use for crops, livestock, biofuels, forestry, and environmental services, as well as greenhouse gas emissions, with and...

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The Effect of Climate and Technological Uncertainty in Crop Yields on the Optimal Path of Global Land Use

Cai, Yongyang - 2017

The pattern of global land use has important implications for the world's food and timber supplies, bioenergy, biodiversity and other eco-system services. However, the productivity of this resource is critically dependent on the world's climate, as well as investments in, and dissemination of...

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Confronting the Food-Energy-Environment Trilemma : Global Land Use in the Long Run

Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2017

Economic, agronomic, and biophysical drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need to be considered in evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework applied over the course of the coming century shows...

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Agriculture and Trade Opportunities for Tanzania : Past Volatility and Future Climate Change

Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017

Given global heterogeneity in climate-induced agricultural variability, Tanzania has the potential to substantially increase its maize exports to other countries. If global maize production is lower than usual due to supply shocks in major exporting regions, Tanzania may be able to export more...

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Poverty Analysis Using an International Cross-Country Demand System

Cranfield, John A. L. - 2016

This paper proposes a new method for ex ante analysis of the poverty impacts arising from policy reforms. Three … innovation, which is the establishment of a unique poverty level of utility and an appropriately modified set of Foster …-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures. With these tools in hand, the authors are able to calculate the change in the head-count of poverty, poverty …

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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries

Hertel, Thomas W. - 2016

trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these … gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural … analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in …

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