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In the run-up to Rio+20, this Asia-Pacific Human Development Report takes a bold look at climate change and what can be …
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Among the major challenges currently faced by humanity are food security and climate change. Agriculture plays a … significant role in both. Adapting to climate change is expected to be an increasing issue for agriculture and food security in … the next decades. At the same time, agriculture is part of the solution in mitigating climate change: by both reducing and …
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This study was undertaken to assess farmers’ preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for various climate …-smart interventions in the Indo-Gangetic Plain. To assess farmers’ choices and their WTP for the potential climate-smart technologies …
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Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. [BREAD Working Paper No. 392]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/392.pdf].
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activities. But how good is untreated water for agriculture and does wastewater affect the profitability of rice cultivation … to human health and may reduce the profitability of cultivated crops. The East Calcutta Wetlands have been a repository … for untreated sewage water from the city of Kolkata for decades. They also sustain local agriculture and fisheries …
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This study explores the three way linkage between weather variability, agricultural performance and internal migration in India at state and district level using Indian Census data.[MSE].
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This paper assesses the impact of climate change on Indian agriculture covering a cross section of crops, seasons and … regions based on existing literature. The study notes that the impact of climate change will vary across crops, regions and … climate change scenarios. [ISEC Working Paper 277]. URL:[http://www.isec.ac.in/WP%20277_K%20N%20Ninan.pdf]. …
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agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …The objective of this paper is to identify climate change related threats and vulnerabilities associated with … agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses …
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Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agriculture production, this … paper assesses the economic effects of climate change for Southeast Asian countries through 2080. However, the uneven … distribution of productivity losses across global regions would bring significant structural adjustments in world wide agriculture …
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Climate change impact studies on agriculture can be broadly divided into those that employ agro-economic approaches and … Indian agriculture. Using panel data over a twenty year period and on 271 districts, we estimate the impact of climate change … those that employ the Ricardian approach. This study uses the Ricardian approach to examine the impact of climate change on …
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