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The Economics of Natural Resource Scarcity and Implications for Development Policy and International Cooperation
Feige, Edgar L. - 2016
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Agricultural adaptation to climate change in rich and poor countries: Current modeling practice and potential for empirical contributions
Hertel, Thomas W.; Lobell, David B. - In: Energy Economics 46 (2014) C, pp. 562-575
In this paper we discuss the scope of the adaptation challenge facing world agriculture in the coming decades. Due to … rising temperatures throughout the tropics, pressures for adaptation will be greatest in some of the poorest parts of the … adaptation in the farm and food sector. In general, we find that existing integrated assessment models are better suited to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115906
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Rural households in a changing climate
Baez, Javier E.; Kronick, Dorothy; Mason, Andrew D. - 2012
; rural households ; adaptation ; risk-coping mechanisms ; long-term effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629134
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099689
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Mali - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Coulibaly, Ousmane - 2021
Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421112
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Mali - Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development : A Study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Coulibaly, Ousmane Nafolo - 2021
Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241028
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Land, climate, energy, agriculture and development in the Sahel : synthesis paper of case studies under the Sudano-Sahelian initiative for regional development, jobs, and food secu...
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Sylla, … - 2021
This paper synthesizes a set of national case studies conducted in the Sahelian countries during 2019- 2020 as a collaboration between national universities and research institutes, and the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, with contributions from the Agrhymet Regional...
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Promoting development, saving the planet
2009
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Global and regional impacts of the clean development mechanism
Wang, Shunli; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009
Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378304
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Can a Nonbinding Climate Treaty Work? Evidence of Asymmetric Effects on Developed and Developing Countries from FCCC
Hong, Fuhai; Wang, Susheng - 2013
Before 2005 when the Kyoto Protocol went into force, the Framework Convention of Climate Change (FCCC) did not impose any binding restrictions on carbon emissions of member countries. Many argue that such a treaty would not reduce carbon emissions. In this paper, we investigate the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182556