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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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It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions in the rural areas of developing countries through the adoption of improved cooking stoves. This belief is largely supported by observational...
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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 done about it. Tackling head-on the issue of poverty reduction and human development, the Report argues that the option to grow now, clean up later no longer exists for...
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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 …
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agriculture as a sector and agriculture as people’s livelihoods (exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity). The paper analyses … agriculture and better human development outcomes. Broadly, it examines the impact of climate change on rural livelihoods …, agriculture, food security. It discusses the options for adaptation and mitigation and requirements for implementation at local …
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Capitalizing on the most recent worldwide estimates of the impacts of climate change on agriculture production, this … 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 …
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-nourished children and adults remain alarmingly high in the region – higher than those in Sub-Saharan Africa. Agriculture continues to …
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This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences in economic outcomes. Areas in which proprietary rights in land were historically given to...
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