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The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture, both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …
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The consequences of climate change for agriculture and food security in developing countries are of serious concern …. Due to their reliance on rain-fed agriculture both as a source of income and consumption, many low-income countries are …. -- climate change ; agriculture ; food security ; crop model ; CGE model ; Tanzania …
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Many low income countries in Africa are optimistic that producing biofuels domestically will not only reduce their … needed. -- biofuels ; economic development ; food security ; poverty ; Africa …
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jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Latin America, and sub …-Saharan Africa with geospatial data on population density, and estimate simultaneous probit models of different activity choices …
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This study investigates the short-term impacts of an aggregate socioeconomic shock on household food consumption and children's nutrition using the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mozambique. In response to the economic downturn, households are expected to adjust their food choices both in...
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an ex-ante measure. In this paper, we disentangle the direct effect of weather shocks on income from agriculture from the …
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Prioritizing public investments requires information on relative returns that are difficult to derive from disparate evaluation studies. This paper presents a 'hybrid' approach that combines ex post evaluation data with an economy-wide model for experimenting ex ante with alternative investment...
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The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might inflict irreparable damage to poor households and foment social unrest in...
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change ; uncertainty ; stochastic simulation ; CGE model ; agriculture ; Bangladesh …
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