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Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Opportunities in Agricultural Landscapes : A Practitioner's Guide to Agricultural and Land Resources Management
Braimoh, Ademola K. - 2016
Agriculture, and the patterns of land-use change that are associated with it, have a significant ecological footprint … globally. Yet agriculture is also the only economic sector in which opportunities are present to mitigate climate change … increasing productivity and employing agriculture as an instrument for economic development. The report highlights the pattern of …
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Making Climate Finance Work in Agriculture
World Bank Group - 2016
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Making Climate Finance Work in Agriculture
World Bank - 2016
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Agricultural Development under a Changing Climate : Opportunities and Challenges for Adaptation
Padgham, Jon - 2009
-linkages that exist between climate, agriculture, and economic growth and development. The purpose of this report is to review the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246983
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Implications for provincial economies of meeting China's NDC through an emission trading scheme : a regional CGE modeling analysis
Pang, Jun; Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2019
This study analyzes the potential impacts of a national emission trading scheme on provincial economies in China of meeting China's emission reduction pledges, the Nationally Determined Contributions announced under the Paris Agreement. The study developed a multiregional, multisectoral,...
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Recall length and measurement error in agricultural surveys
Wollburg, Philip; Tiberti, Marco; Zezza, Alberto - 2020
. Using data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in Malawi and Tanzania …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228617
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The nutrition sensitivity of food and agriculture in South Asia
Dizon, Felipe; Josephson, Anna; Raju, Dhushyanth - 2019
Through a review of the literature, this paper examines the links of food and agriculture with nutrition in South Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008111
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Generating gridded agricultural gross domestic product for Brazil : a comparison of methodologies
Thomas, Timothy S.; You, Liangzhi; Wood-Sichra, Ulrike; … - 2019
This paper examines two new methods to generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and compares the results with a traditional method. In the case of Brazil, these two new methods of spatial disaggregation and cross-entropy outperform the prediction of agricultural GDP from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114017
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Impact of the West African Ebola epidemic on agricultural production and rural welfare : evidence from Liberia
De La Fuente, Alejandro; Jacoby, Hanan; Lawin, … - 2019
The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies remain poorly understood. To study these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051875
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Improving the measurement of rural women's employment : global momentum and survey research priorities
Koolwa, Gayatri - 2019
Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda Living Standards and Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022358