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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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farm type in African agriculture. This two stage model first estimates the type of farm chosen and then the conditional …
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The authors explore how Latin American livestock farmers adapt to climate by switching species. They develop a multinomial choice model of farmer's choice of livestock species. Estimating the models across over 1,200 livestock farmers in seven countries, they find that both temperature and...
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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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This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data … from the Food and Agriculture Organization combined with economic survey data from a Global Environment Facility/World Bank … future climate related damage to agriculture. With a mild climate scenario, African farmers gain income from climate change …
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-ecological zone in Africa. The authors examine how climate has affected the farmer's choice to raise livestock or not and the choice … models and the estimated model. With a hot dry scenario, livestock ownership will increase slightly across all of Africa, but … especially in West Africa and high elevation agro-ecological zones. Dairy cattle will decrease in semi-arid regions, sheep will …
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change ; uncertainty ; stochastic simulation ; CGE model ; agriculture ; Bangladesh …
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