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Is Weather Really Additive in Agricultural Production? Implications for Climate Change Impacts
Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel - 2013
Recent reduced-form econometric models of climate change impacts on agriculture assume climate is additive. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729085
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Adaptation to Climate Change by Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania
Komba, Coretha; Muchapondwa, Edwin - Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) - 2012
In Sub-Saharan Africa, climate change is set to hit the agricultural sector the most and cause untold suffering particularly for smallholder farmers. To cushion themselves against the potential welfare losses, smallholder farmers need to recognize the changes already taking place in their...
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268602
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Using Degree Days to Value Farmland
Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert; Chonabayashi, Shun - CESifo - 2014
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation. A new strand of the literature uses degree days over the growing season to predict farmland value. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105369
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Environmental Management in Agriculture – Case of Bulgaria
Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
agriculture, and assesses the forms, factors and efficiency of agro-eco-management in Bulgaria during post-communist transition … evaluating the system of environmental management in agriculture. After that is analysed evolution of diverse formal and informal … management forms for environmental management in Bulgarian agriculture, and identifies and assesses the forms, factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114363
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Climate Change and Adaptation: The Case of Nigerian Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2013
characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper “soft measures” and more costly “hard” irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904911
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Climate change, adaptation and China's grain production
Zhou, Li; Turvey, Calum G. - In: China Economic Review 28 (2014) C, pp. 72-89
This paper measures the economic impacts of climate change on China's grain production by using provincial time series data over a 32-year period. The panel data model and time series region model with/without adaptation are applied at the same time to assess the effectiveness of a common...
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Planning and costing of agricultural adaptation with reference to integrated hill farming systems in Nepal.
Paudel, Bikash; Tamang, B B; Lamsal, Krishna; Paudel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
1. Despite an existing information gap in scientific evidence regarding the effects of future changes in climate patterns and options for the future, the community-based adaptation process should nevertheless be initiated. This requires community involvement through participatory planning in...
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Climate Impacts in Europe - The JRC PESETA II Project
Ciscar, Juan-Carlos; Feyen, Luc; Soria, Antonio; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
change impacts in Europe by the end of this century. The study uses a large set of climate model runs and impact categories … (ten impacts: agriculture, energy, river floods, droughts, forest fires, transport infrastructure, coasts, tourism, habitat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111444
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Efficiency assessment of hydroelectric power plants in Canada: A multi criteria decision making approach
Wang, Bing; Nistor, Ioan; Murty, Tad; Wei, Yi-Ming - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 112-121
Hydropower plays a major role in the Canadian electricity generation industry. Few attempts have been made, however, to assess the efficiency of hydropower generation in Canada. This paper analyzes the overall efficiency of hydropower generation in Canada from comprehensive viewpoints of...
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