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Review of Environmental, Economic and Policy Aspects of Biofuels
Rajagopal, Deepak - 2016
The world is witnessing a sudden growth in production of biofuels, especially those suited for replacing oil like ethanol and biodiesel. This paper synthesizes what the environmental, economic, and policy literature predicts about the possible effects of these types of biofuels. Another...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747620
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Biofuels and Climate Change Mitigation : A CGE Analysis Incorporating Land-Use Change
Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017
The question of whether biofuels help mitigate climate change has attracted much debate in the literature. Using a global computable general equilibrium model that explicitly represents land-use change impacts due to the expansion of biofuels, this study attempts to shed some light on this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975985
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Improved Biomass Cookstove Use in the Longer Run - Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Alemu - 2020
This paper reports on electronically-monitored improved use of the “Mirt” biomass stove in Ethiopia over a relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831774
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Do Improved Biomass Cookstoves Reduce Fuelwood Consumption and Carbon Emissions? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia Using a Randomized Treatment Trial with Electronic Monitoring
Beyene, Abebe - 2017
being implemented in rural Ethiopia. Knowing more about how households interact with improved cookstoves is important … emissions and indoor air pollution. Creating local networks among stove users generally appears to increase fuelwood savings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971541
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Household Responses to Shocks in Rural Ethiopia : Livestock as a Buffer Stock
Ali, Daniel Ayalew - 2017
the role of livestock inventories as a buffer stock in rural Ethiopia. The results show that relatively land …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971851
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Do Improved Biomass Cookstoves Reduce Pm2.5 Concentrations? If so, for Whom? Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
Bluffstone, Randall - 2019
household air pollution reductions from an improved biomass cookstove promoted in rural Ethiopia, the Mirt improved cookstove … and possibly cut household air pollution in low-income countries. This study uses a randomized controlled trial to examine … sample, the Mirt improved cookstove leads to only minor reductions in mean household air pollution (10 percent on average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865449
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Impacts of Improved Biomass Cookstoves on Child and Adult Health : Experimental Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
LaFave, Daniel - 2019
This paper presents the three-year impacts of an improved biomass cookstove on child and adult health in rural Ethiopia … impacts of hazardous air pollution while also refining the design and implementation options for interventions geared toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865452
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Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia
Yamano, Takashi - 2017
Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966159
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Potential for Application of a Probabilistic Catastrophe Risk Modelling Framework to Poverty Outcomes : General Form Vulnerability Functions Relating Household Poverty Outcomes to...
Porter, Catherine - 2017
vulnerability to poverty using the example of drought hazard impacts on the welfare of rural households in Ethiopia. The aim is to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968739
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Decomposition of Gender Differentials in Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia
Aguilar, Arturo A - 2020
land managers in Ethiopia. It employs data from the 2011-2012 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey. An overall 23.4 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012856788