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agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper soft measures and more costly hard irrigation … characterizing Nigerian agriculture, covering more than 80% of agricultural value added. The evaluation is performed shocking land … in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria …
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. Mitigation policies have a strict compliance regime using both positive and negative reinforcement. On the other side, adaptation … recommendations complementing sectoral policies. Agriculture has a relatively low potential of curbing GHG emissions but are some of … policies and adaptation policies. It concludes that in the absence of matching binding commitments from other large emitters of …
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agriculture. I find that rainfed maize is sensitive to both temperature and precipitation. This sensitivity is weakened in … 2100 I conclude that, in the absence of adaptation, rainfed maize yields could decrease by 3.3-4.0% on average depending on …
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, substantial investment in adaptation will be required to maintain current yields and to achieve increases in food production and …
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range of adaptation options to the climatic environment. A Box-Cox form is employed to allow for very flexible relationships …
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Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, surprisingly hardly any evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
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Despite a vast literature documenting the negative effects of climate change on various socio-economic outcomes, little, if any, evidence exists on the global impacts of hotter temperature on poverty. Analyzing a new global dataset of subnational poverty in 166 countries, we find higher...
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Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests …, reference income, and income adaptation. Models simultaneously controlling for income and income rank as well as models with a …
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