agriculture. Though Indian agriculture is very important, but it largely depends on the climate and weather conditions. India has …Agriculture plays an important role in the process of economic development of less developed countries like India …. Besides providing food to nation, agriculture releases labour, provides saving, contributes to market of industrial goods and …

This chapter focusses on global environmental risks such as climate change, an issue that must be confronted as we move … their role of averting and hedging climate risks. This chapter is about these and related questions. In attempting to answer … characteristics: they are endogenous and potentially catastrophic. In addition, climate risks have three more conventional features …

in an agricultural production framework. The results show that climate, measured as changes in country-wide rainfall and … by climate in the same manner. Simulations using the estimates suggest that the detrimental changes in climate since the …

As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world … climate change on humans and the environment will include increasing stresses on and even collapses of ecosystems … pests and diseases. Consequently, development goals are threatened by climate change with heaviest impacts on poor countries …

This paper applies Ricardian approach to measure the effect of climate change on crop production in Nepal using cross …-section data of Nepal Living Standard Survey 2003/04 and climate data from Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Nepal. The … study examines the relationship between net farm revenue and climate variables using 656 households of 14 districts covering …

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 … activity most sensitive to climate change. We evaluate the dynamic effects of productivity change and individual efforts to …

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 …

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 …