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Climate Change Impacts and Mitigation in the Developing World : An Integrated Assessment of the Agriculture and Forestry Sectors
Havlík, Petr - 2017
This paper conducts an integrated assessment of climate change impacts and climate mitigation on agricultural commodity markets and food availability in low- and middle-income countries. The analysis uses the partial equilibrium model GLOBIOM to generate scenarios to 2080. The findings show that...
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Confronting the Food-Energy-Environment Trilemma : Global Land Use in the Long Run
Steinbuks, Jevgenijs - 2017
Economic, agronomic, and biophysical drivers affect global land use, so all three influences need to be considered in evaluating economically optimal allocations of the world's land resources. A dynamic, forward-looking optimization framework applied over the course of the coming century shows...
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Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in Tanzania
Arndt, Channing - 2017
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 considered to be the most vulnerable to climate change....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975006
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Evolution of Poor Food Access Over the Course of the Conflict in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad - 2019
The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There has been an increase in violence, a disruption in supply chains due to a tightening of the ports, and a decline in the general economic climate that has left a large share of...
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Measuring the Impact of a Change in the Price of Cashew Received by Exporters on Farmgate Prices and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Cont, Walter - 2017
fund to promote the industrialization of agricultural products, in particular -- on farmgate prices and poverty in Guinea …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972736
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Rising Food Prices and Coping Strategies : Household-Level Evidence from Afghanistan
D'Souza, Anna - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of rising wheat prices -- during the 2007/08 global food crisis -- on food security in Afghanistan. Exploiting the temporal stratification of a unique nationally-representative household survey, the analysis finds evidence of large declines in real per capita...
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The Short-Term Impact of Higher Food Prices on Poverty in Uganda
Simler, Kenneth R. - 2017
consumption poverty. The analysis finds that poor households in Uganda tend to be net buyers of food staples, and therefore suffer … foods. The paper estimates that both the incidence and depth of poverty have increased -- at least in the short run -- as a … result of higher food prices in 2008, increasing by 2.6 and 2.2 percentage points, respectively. The increase in poverty is …
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Green Sukuk, Energy Poverty, and Climate Change : A Roadmap for Sub-Saharan Africa
AASSOULI, Dalal - 2018
The climate change challenge and the growth of the Islamic finance industry, together with the increase in socially responsible investing, could position green sukuk as a key instrument for financing clean energy and resilient infrastructure projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906400
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Exposure to Floods, Climate Change, and Poverty in Vietnam
Bangalore, Mook - 2017
hazard maps and spatial socioeconomic data. The paper also examines flood exposure and poverty at the local level within Ho …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968642
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Impact of Climate Change and Aquatic Salinization on Mangrove Species and Poor Communities in the Bangladesh Sundarbans
Dasgupta, Susmita - 2017
This paper investigates possible impacts of climate change on the poor communities of the Bangladesh Sundarbans via changes in aquatic salinity and mangrove species. The implications for poor communities are assessed by computing changes in high-value mangrove species for the five sub-districts...
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