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Adaptation is critical since the mitigation efforts to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases will … ability to adapt is low. This study analyses adaptation to climate change in four ecological zones in Kenya. These ecological … zones include arid, semi-arid, temperate and humid areas. Climate change adaptation is relatively low in arid areas in …
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In this paper we analyze mortality caused by 2,194 large flood events between 1985 and 2008 in 108 countries. Unlike previous studies that looked at natural-disaster mortality, we find that year-to-year changes in income and institutional determinants of vulnerability do not affect flood...
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Replaced with revised version of paper 07/24/11.
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capture farmers’ adaptation strategies to cope with climate change risks. The data for the analysis were gathered from a … endogeneity between crop yields. Doing so allows the study to capture adaptation strategies that smallholders use by diversifying …
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Rising agricultural productivity in developing countries is crucial to ease the tension of increased population and haunting concern on food security. Nevertheless the soaring price of fertilizer and sluggish dissemination of improved seed varieties prohibit the poor to tap benefits from...
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We assessed the food security situation in Bangladesh based on 2011-2012 Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey data …
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This study analyzes the climate change and economic impacts of food waste in the United States. Using loss-adjusted national food availability data for 134 food commodities, it calculates the greenhouse gas emissions due to wasted food using life cycle assessment and the economic cost of the...
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Contributed Paper prepared for presentation at the International Association of Agricultural Economists’ 2009 Conference, Beijing, China, August 16-22, 2009.
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Approximately 75% of all water used by humans goes towards food production, much of which is traded internationally. This study formally models how this works in the case of crop agriculture, making use of recent advances in international trade theory and new data on the productivity by which...
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. Therefore researches of far-seeing adaptation to global challenges are necessary, let these challenges be climate change … rested also on other subjects, so properly speaking it is a transdisciplinary paradigm. Research work on adaptation to global …
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