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This paper replicates and extends the study of Zhang et al. (2010): „Food versus fuel: What do prices tell us?" Energy … and food commodities in the period between March 1989 and July 2008. In addition, we extend that study and examine the … and the USA in the three separate periods before, during, and after the food crisis of 2007 and 2008, we show that …
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This paper provides microeconomic evidence on food security impacts of privately organized biofuel outgrower schemes in … endogenous switching regressions to analyze the impact on food security. Food security (as measured by a “food gap”) and food … caloric intake is significantly better in households producing castor beans. “Fuel” and “food” are complements rather than …
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examines the economic feasibility of sugarcane bioethanol in India while considering food security as a competing policy … priority. The analyses show that 20% blending of bioethanol cannot be achieved without affecting food production in India at …, can support up to 5% blending on bioethanol without compromising food production while improving social welfare. Given …
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We analyze the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-use change, food supply and prices, and … forest and pasture lands in a few countries. The expansion of biofuels would cause a moderate decrease in world food supply …
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diverse agro-ecological conditions which are suitable for growing both temperate and tropical food and industrial crops. This … Ethiopia is still a poor country with more than one fifth of the population living below the national poverty line. Food …
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(including water, energy, food) coupled with the adverse impacts of variability and climate change threaten the population and … 550 km, which can be mobilized for irrigation to enable food security. Therefore, socioeconomic development requires an …
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in food security and productivity. Climate change has further exacerbated the problem through desertification, drought … land degradation. Resulting implications are that food security is threatened and economic growth is hampered. Land …
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and fairly stable food security, with only 7.2 percent of the population being food insecure. However, some localized … pockets of acute food needs remain. This is in part linked to agricultural production (the main source of income and labor … Contribution for climate governance, the PRACAS (for agriculture and food security) and land-use policies highlights the main …
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plans and policies is: food security and raising productivity, reducing poverty and enhancing adaptation and resilience to …
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This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production … environmental energy costs in the food supply …
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