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The Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa?
Barrios, Salvador; Ouattara, Bazoumanna; Strobl, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper examines the impact of climatic change on the level of total agricultural production of Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) and non-Sub-Sahara Africa (NSSA) developing countries. In doing so it uses a new cross-country panel climatic dataset in an agricultural production framework. The results...
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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259199
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A Ricardian analysis of the climate change impact on Nepalese agriculture
Thapa, Sridhar; Joshi, Ganesh Raj - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
agriculture seems to be varied with the temperature and precipitation in different climatic zones. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876882
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Potential climate effects on Japanese rice productivity
Tanaka, Kenta; Managi, Shunsuke; Kondo, Katsunobu; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy question in recent years. Agriculture is the economic … adapt to climate change. Adaptation actions in agriculture are evaluated to determine how the climate affects production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397161
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Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Indian Agriculture: An Overview
Singh, K.M.; Kumar, Abhay; Singh, R.K.P. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in agriculture is increasingly important. E-Agriculture … communication processes. More specifically, e-Agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and … on agriculture.ICTs promise a fundamental change in all aspects of our lives, including knowledge dissemination, social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185692
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Impactos econômicos das mudanças climáticas no Brasil
Domingues, Edson Paulo; Haddad, Eduardo Amaral; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The aim of this paper is to develop scenarios of the economic impacts of climate change in Brazil, articulating the projected impacts of climate change on agricultural and energy sectors to macroeconomic scenarios, these related to climate change scenarios developed by IPCC (A2 and B2).
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Poverty and economic development of Kenya
Mohajan, Haradhan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The economy of Kenya has been continued to be the largest in the East African region and third largest in Sub-Saharan Africa after South Africa and Nigeria respectively. At present Kenya is one of the most highly literate countries in sub-Saharan Africa. But more than 60% people of Kenya live...
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Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation with reference to integrated hill farming systems in Nepal.
Paudel, Bikash; Tamang, B B; Lamsal, Krishna; Paudel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires community involvement through participatory planning in...
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A general equilibrium analysis of the impact of climate change on agriculture in the People's Republic of China
Zhai, Fan; Lin, Tun; Byambadorj, Enerelt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
that with the anticipated decline in agriculture share of gross domestic product, the impact of climate change on the PRC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592973
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Response to “PEPFAR Program Expenditures” [Form Number: DS-4213, OMB Control Number: 1405-0208] – Third Revision
Douglas, J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This response document will briefly address concerns about the ethical, legal and methodological flaws with past research informing aspects of present PEPFAR program areas; concerns about adverse consequences of PEPFAR program areas; and concerns about the absence of oversight of the activities...
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