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leveraging agriculture for development. This paper examines how a changing climate may affect rice production and how Vietnamese …Vietnam is likely to be among the countries hardest hit by climate change, threatening its legacy as a champion in … sample selection bias and endogeneity of inputs. Model results suggest that although climate change can potentially reduce …
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This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers' income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in...
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The paper examines the impact of access to India's farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras, or KVKs) on agricultural households' welfare using household-level data from the nationally representative Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households conducted by India's National Sample...
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This research was designed to understand better the patterns of agricultural intensification and transformation occurring in Africa South of the Sahara using the Ghanaian case. The paper examines changes in farming systems and the role of various endogenous and exogenous factors in driving the...
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As the effects of climate change set in, and population and income growth exert increasing pressure on natural … Republic of Korea to climate change shocks and fluctuations in the global food market. This study uses the IMPACT … practices consistent with a climate change adaptation strategy. The goal is to help assess the prospects for sustaining …
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Cambodia has been identified as one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, given the predicted changes in … temperature and precipitation, the share of labor in agriculture, and the country’s low adaptive capacity due to widespread … poverty. In this study, we use climate data from four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate …
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its livelihood. The goal of this research was to examine the likely impacts of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh … four general circulation models (GCMs) to evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture in Bangladesh by 2050. We …Bangladesh is extremely vulnerable to the impact of climate change because it is a low-lying, flat country subject to …
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simulation models of global agriculture to do long-run scenario analysis of the effects of climate change and various adaptation …Achieving and maintaining global food security is challenged by changes in population, income, and climate, among other …, technology, and climate. On top of the baseline, scenarios are developed for assessing the impacts of promising climate adapted …
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productivity growth. Food systems are also under threat from disrupters like climate change and distorting policies (including … trade wars).This paper makes two quantitative, forward-looking assessments for the future of food and agriculture in the LAC … climate change. The second focuses on current vulnerability of LACs agri-food system to short-term disrupters with special …
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Agriculture in Central Asia is vulnerable to climate change due to rising aridity, declining availability of water … resources for irrigation, and low adaptive capacity. We use climate data from CMIP5 with RCP8.5 for greenhouse gas emissions and … the DSSAT crop model to investigate how yields of key crops in Central Asia will be affected by climate change. We …
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