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Asia's sectoral transformation, evolving diets, and the consequences for climate change
Larson, Donald F. - 2024
to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting … the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
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Carbon markets, institutions, policies, and research
Larson, Donald F. (contributor) - 2008
"The scale of investment needed to slow greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital. This is especially true in the case of the Kyoto Protocol with its provisions for trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520998
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Carbon Markets, Institutions, Policies, and Research
Larson, Donald F. - 2016
The scale of investment needed to slow greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital. This is especially true in the case of the Kyoto Protocol with its provisions for trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747138
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Carbon Markets, Institutions, Policies, and Research
Larson, Donald F.; Ambrosi, Philippe; Dinar, Ariel - 2012
The scale of investment needed to slow greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital. This is especially true in the case of the Kyoto Protocol with its provisions for trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552551
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On the Central Role of Small Farms in African Rural Development Strategies
Larson, Donald F. - 2017
Improving the productivity of smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa offers the best chance to reduce poverty among this generation of rural poor, by building on the limited resources farming households already possess. It is also the best and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using...
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Long-Term Impacts of an Unanticipated Risk Event : The 2007/08 Food Price Crisis and Child Growth in Indonesia
Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2017
Unanticipated spikes in food prices can increase malnutrition among the poor, with lasting consequences; however, livelihood strategies that include producing food for home consumption are expected to offer a measure of protection. Using anthropometric and consumption data from Indonesia...
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Food security and storage in the Middle East and North Africa
Larson, Donald F.; Lampietti, Julian; Gouel, Christophe; … - In: The World Bank economic review 28 (2014) 1, pp. 48-73
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Blue water and the consequences of alternative food security policies in the Middle East and North Africa for water security
Larson, Donald F. - 2013
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Can Africa replicate Asia’s green revolution in rice?
Larson, Donald F.; Ōtsuka, Keijirō; Kajisa, Kei; … - 2010
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The performance of Bulgarian food markets during reform
Larson, Donald F.; Sarris, Alexander - 2009
"Food policy often depends on markets and markets depend on institutions. But how good do institutions have to be before reforms can be launched? Relying on well timed surveys of agricultural prices and a joint study by the Government of Bulgaria and the World Bank on agricultural market...
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