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The Inter-Linkages between Rapid Growth in Livestock Production, Climate Change, and the Impacts on Water Resources, Land Use, and Deforestation
Thornton, Philip - 2017
Livestock systems globally are changing rapidly in response to human population growth, urbanization, and growing incomes. This paper discusses the linkages between burgeoning demand for livestock products, growth in livestock production, and the impacts this may have on natural resources, and...
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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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Gender and Agriculture : Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps
Croppenstedt, Andre - 2017
Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974597
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Moving Off the Farm : Land Institutions to Facilitate Structural Transformation and Agricultural Productivity Growth in China
Deininger, Klaus - 2017
Agriculture has made major contributions to China's economic growth and poverty reduction, but the literature has … households to exit from agriculture or send family members to the non-farm sector. It finds that land tenure insecurity, measured … by the history of past land reallocations, discourages households from quitting agriculture. The recognition of land …
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Agriculture and the Clean Development Mechanism
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
Many experts believe that low-cost mitigation opportunities in agriculture are abundant and comparable in scale to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976065
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Environment and Development : Penalized Non-Parametric Inference of Global Trends in Deforestation, Pollution and Carbon
Andree, Bo Pieter Johannes - 2019
This paper revisits the issue of environment and development raised in the 1992 World Development Report, with new analysis tools and data. The paper discusses inference and interpretation in a machine learning framework. The results suggest that production gradually favors conserving the...
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Technology Strategies for Low-Carbon Economic Growth : A General Equilibrium Assessment
Sue Wing, Ian - 2017
This paper investigates the potential for developing countries to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions without slowing their expected economic growth. A theoretical frame- work is developed that unifies bottom-up marginal abatement cost curves and partial equilibrium techno-economic simulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968719
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Strategic Climate Policy with Offsets and Incomplete Abatement : Carbon Taxes Versus Cap-and-Trade
Strand, Jon - 2017
This paper provides a first analysis of optimal offset policies by a "policy bloc" of fossil fuel importers implementing a climate policy, facing a (non-policy) fringe of other importers, and a bloc of fuel exporters. The policy bloc uses either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, jointly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975982
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Financing Low-Carbon Transitions Through Carbon Pricing and Green Bonds
Heine, Dirk - 2019
To finance the transition to low-carbon economies required to mitigate climate change, countries are increasingly using a combination of carbon pricing and green bonds. This paper studies the reasoning behind such policy mixes and the economic interaction effects that result from these different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864368
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Aligning Climate Change Mitigation and Agricultural Policies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
policy instruments needed to tap mitigation opportunities in agriculture is incomplete. In particular, market … mitigation incentives, and missed mitigation opportunities in agriculture. The paper concludes with a discussion of alternative … policies designed to jointly promote mitigation and co-benefits for agriculture and the environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975205