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South African food security and climate change: Agriculture futures

Dube, Sikhalazo; Scholes, Robert J.; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-35, pp. 1-54

The projected changes in planted area, yield per area, net exports/imports and prices for five major agricultural crops in South Africa were simulated using the projections of four Global Circulation Models (GCMs) under three socio-economic scenarios. The GCM projections show consistent strong...

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Regional wheat price effects of extreme weather events and wheat export controls in Russia and Ukraine

Götz, Linde; Djuric, Ivan; Nivievskyi, Oleg - 2016

This paper further builds on the price transmission model framework of existing studies to identify domestic wheat price effects of wheat export controls. We explicitly take the fact into account that a harvest failure causes domestic price effects as well. Moreover, the analysis at the regional...

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US food security and climate change: Agricultural futures

Takle, Eugene S.; Gustafson, David; Beachy, Roger; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 7 (2013) 2013-34, pp. 1-41

Agreement is developing among agricultural scientists on the emerging inability of agriculture to meet growing global food demands. Changes in trends of weather conditions projected by global climate models will challenge physiological limits of crops and exacerbate the global food challenge by...

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Sustainable greenhouse policies: The role of non-CO 2 gases

Michaelis, Peter - 1997

This paper investigates the economic implications of a comprehensive approach to sustainable greenhouse policies that strives to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of the five major greenhouse gases at an ecologically determined threshold level. In a theoretical optimisation model...

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Twenty K.R. Narayanan orations: Essays by eminent persons on the rapidly transforming Indian economy

Jha, Raghbendra (contributor) - 2021

needed a public forum with a global reach to involve the best minds working on economic development in India as well as to … honour its founder, Dr K.R. Narayanan, President of the Republic of India. The K.R. Narayanan Oration series was developed in … both an expert account of key aspects of the economic development process in India and a peek into India's potential in the …

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Enforcing the right to food in India: Bottlenecks in delivering the expected outcome

Cheriyan, George - 2006

Over the past decade, a series of events in India have brought the question of food security into sharp focus. Vast … Organization laws on agriculture and farmers, the media’s spotlight on starvation deaths and, finally, the Supreme Court of India … situation prevailing in India and reviews the obligations and initiatives by the government of India to ensure food security …

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The public distribution systems of foodgrains and implications for food security: A comparison of the experiences of India and China

Zhou, Zhang-Yue; Wan, Guanghua - 2006

A comparative study of the public distribution systems of foodgrains in India and China is expected to reveal lessons …

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Philippines: Food Security versus Agricultural Exports?

Tiongco, Marites M.; Francisco, Kris A. - 2011

This paper tries to characterize the current situation in the Philippines with respect to the goal of the Aquino administration to be food secure and self-sufficient in rice by 2016. Specifically, it aims to address the question: "Should the government continue its efforts in increasing rice...

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Revisiting the global food architecture: Lessons from the 2008 food crisis

Christiaensen, Luc - 2009

The 2008 episode of food price explosion, political turmoil, and human suffering revealed important flaws in the current global food architecture. This paper argues that to safeguard the strengths of the current system, four failures in market functioning and policymaking must be addressed....

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Background Paper: Research and Development and Extension Services in Agriculture and Food Security

Wesley, Annie; Faminow, Merle - 2014

Investments in agricultural research and extension have consistently demonstrated high rates of return in Asia and the Pacific. However, the recent global food crisis exposed the vulnerability of food supply systems and reversed many past achievements in the fight against hunger and...

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