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Climate change in Australia: agricultural impacts and adaptation
Kingwell, Ross S. - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 14 (2006)
Impacts on Australian agriculture of projected climate change are likely to be spatially and temporally diverse, with many regions likely to experience increased downside risk in agricultural production. Some regions, such as south-west Australia, are projected to be particularly at risk of...
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Climatic Variability Associated With Tea Cultivation : A Case Study of Nuwaraeliya Pedro Tea Estate in Sri Lanka
Nianthi, Rekha - 2019
The tea cultivation highly depends on the prevailing weather conditions and is extremely sensitive to climate … low quality of the tea. This study has attempted to understand the perception of tea estate workers about the impact of … climate variability and change on tea cultivation in Pedro tea estate which is the highest tea estate located about 3 km east …
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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis
Waithaka, Michael (contributor);  … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
The second of three books in IFPRI's climate change in Africa series, East African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing 10 of the countries that make up east and central Africa - Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Kenya,...
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Smallholder productivity and weather shocks : adoption and impact of widely promoted agricultural practices in Tanzania
Arslan, Aslıhan; Belotti, Federico; Lipper, Leslie - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 69 (2017), pp. 68-81
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Potential climate effects on Japanese rice productivity
Tanaka, Kenta; Managi, Shunsuke; Kondo, Katsunobu; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Adaptation to climate change has become an important policy question in recent years. Agriculture is the economic activity most sensitive to climate change. We evaluate the dynamic effects of productivity change and individual efforts to adapt to climate change. Adaptation actions in agriculture...
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Energy productivity and greenhouse gas emission intensity in Dutch dairy farms : a Hicks-Moorsteen by-production approach under non-convexity and convexity with equivalence results
Ang, Frederic; Kerstens, Kristiaan; Sadeghi, Jafar - In: Journal of agricultural economics : JAE 74 (2023) 2, pp. 492-509
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Climate Change and Food Security to 2050: A Global Economy-wide Perspective
Valenzuela, Ernesto; Anderson, Kym - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
Recent analyses of the possible adverse effects of climate change on agriculture in developing countries have raised food security concerns, especially for farm households whose crop productivity is expected to fall. The present study uses the GTAP global economy-wide model to capture at the...
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Ecosystems for water and food security. [Background paper]
International Water Management Institute (IWMI)
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The Impact of Bio-Ethanol Conversion and Global Climate Change on Corn Economic Performanve of Indonesia
Ferrianta, Yudi; Hanani, Nuhfil; Setiawan, Budi; … - In: International Journal of Agricultural Management and … 02 (2012) 3
Many studies conclude that the rise in global food prices due to higher demand from the development of biofuels, climate anomalies, and increased of oil prices. Not only the food commodity index rose more than 60 percent, nonfood commodity price index also rose over 60 percent and crude oil...
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Impacts of Climate Change on Corn and Soybean Yields in China
Chen, Shuai; Chen, Xiaoguang; Xu, Jintao - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Using a unique county-level panel on crop yields and daily weather dataset over the past decade, we estimate the impact of climate change on corn and soybean yields in China. Our results suggest the existence of nonlinear and asymmetric relationships between corn and soybean yields and climate...
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