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increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation and food security through the increases in crop yields. The framework … indirectly the cross-cutting ecological concerns foci of major global conventions: climate change, biodiversity, the combat of … biodiversity and preventing land degradation. These options demonstrate that the judicious management of organic matter is central …
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paper is that although the potential of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation in Ghana is … local perceptions of forest space and landscape, biodiversity conservation and traditional beliefs, and their significance …
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-induced changes in energy demand are disproportionally larger in tropical regions. South America, Asia, and Africa, increase energy …
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The study proposes an agent-based model to investigate how adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) affects food security. The analysis investigates the role of social and ecological pressures (i.e. community network, climate change and environmental externalities) on the adoption of physical...
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The analysis finds that in addition to U-shaped paths of environmental quality arising for growth in income per capita, growth in population can also produce socially efficient patterns that are U-shaped. Sufficient conditions for both types of paths are identified for a range of models and...
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competition. The situation in Africa is particularly problematic, as the continent lags behind all others in terms of quality and …
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methodology for Africa designed to calculate employment from electricity generation in the U.S., this study finds that energy …
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Energy-based economic development (EBED) can provide economic, social and environmental benefits related to national economic development and sustainable growth activities. As both policy and research interests in responsible mechanisms for economic development grow, EBED benefits are becoming...
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infrastructure/utility provision, and increased investment from both domestic and foreign sources. Privatization is one way to …/manufacturing and most infrastructure still remains in state hands. Given prevailing public hostility towards privatization, and …
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Global gridded crop models (GGCMs) are the workhorse of assessments of the agricultural impacts of climate change. Yet the changes in crop yields projected by different models in response to the same meteorological forcing can differ substantially. Through an intermethod comparison, we provide a...
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