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Diversifying and benchmarking Madagascar
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2024
Because excessive specialization can be risky, diversification matters for sustainable development. A case study of … Madagascar, this paper begins by briefly discussing economic and institutional diversification and presenting a simple model of … production possibilities to illuminate the possible contribution of diversification to economic and social development in …
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A Study on Impacts of the Institutional Environment and Climate Change on Sustainability of Agriculture – the Case of Bulgaria
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2021
Achieving diverse goals of sustainable development greatly depends on the specific socio-economic, institutional and natural environment in a particular country, industry, region, community, etc. Despite its importance, in Bulgaria, like in other East European countries, there are very few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323753
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The CAFO Hothouse : Climate Change, Industrial Agriculture and the Law
Cassuto, David N. - 2014
The issue of climate change has at long last made its way into mainstream policy discussions in the United States. However, the focus both in the United States and internationally has been on reducing energy production and transportation emissions. This has led the media, policy makers and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193208
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Assessments of Preparedness, Agri-Food Impacts and Implications for Disaster Risk Management of Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Bachev, Hrabrin - 2019
On March 11, 2011 the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The later was a “man-made” disaster having immense impacts on people’s life, health and property, infrastructure, supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103276
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Orphan crops and the vulnerability of rural livelihoods : the case of enset in Ethiopia
Feyisa, Ashenafi Duguma; Mey, Yann de; Maertens, Miet - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
This study examines the role of enset or false banana, an orphan crop with high resilience to extreme environmental conditions, high nutritional value, and long storability, in the livelihood of rural households in Ethiopia. With its specific characteristics, enset could reduce households'...
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Market Responses to Climate Stress : Rice in Java in the 1930s
van der Eng, Pierre - 2010
Do markets in less-developed countries abate consequences of climate stress? Using changes in regional rice prices across the 19 regions in Java, Indonesia, during 1935-40, this paper will assess how rice markets responded to variations in rainfall, which is an important factor in rice...
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The Effect of Climate Change and Adaptation Policy on Agricultural Production in Eastern Africa
Kahsay, Goytom Abraha; Hansen, Lars Gårn - 2014
We estimate the production function for agricultural output in Eastern Africa incorporating climate variables disaggregated into growing and non-growing seasons. We find a substantial negative effect of within growing season variance of precipitation. We simulate predicted climate change for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101021
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Connotation of Minor Millet Biodiversity and Indirect Payments in Tribal Homesteads in the Backdrop of Climate Change
Aravindakshan, Sreejith - 2014
Unscathed agrobiodiversity remaining in-situ today is found on the small-scale farms and homestead gardens of poorer and developing countries (Brookfield, 2001). The indigenous traditional farming of Muthuvan tribe as the case of Finger millet or Ragi (Eleusine coracana), a minor millet...
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Potential conflicts between agricultural trade rules and climate change treaty commitments
Häberli, Christian - 2018
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The common agricultural policy 2021-2027 : a new history for European agriculture
Castro, Paolo de; Miglietta, Pier Paolo; Vecchio, Yari - In: Italian review of agricultural economics 75 (2020) 3, pp. 5-12
Contributing to the ongoing debate on the future of European agriculture and rural areas, the study states that, in the light of the present historical contingency, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will need to support the reconciliation between the target objective of competitive...
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