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Russia's food security and climate change : looking into the future
Kiselev, Sergey; Romashkin, Roman; Nelson, Gerald C.; … - 2013
Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194902
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Bilateral trade and food security
Brooks, Douglas Howard; Ferrarini, Benno; Go, Eugenia - 2013
We analyze the relationship between food security and trade, focusing on food importers' exposure to sudden market failures from relying on a narrow range of international suppliers. We compute a bilateral import penetration index (BIPI), which gauges the degree to which a country depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010192307
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Assessing the Cost of Supplying Water for Agriculture : The Food Supply Cost Curve
Roson, Roberto - 2017
As part of a “Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity in the NENA Region”, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959465
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Assessing the Cost of Supplying Water for Agriculture : The Food Supply Cost Curve
Roson, Roberto - 2017
As part of a “Regional Initiative on Water Scarcity in the NENA Region”, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952776
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State of Agricultural Production and Food Security in Russia in 2022
Shagaida, Natalia; Ternovskiy, Denis - 2023
In 2022, index of physical volume of agricultural output in agricultural organizations, peasant (private) farms and household farms grew by 10.2% as compared to the previous year. In monetary terms growth was 14.8% due to rising prices on agricultural products (+4.2%, i.e. much lower as compared...
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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009
The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050425
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
the developing world while permitting lavish subsidies and import-restrictive tariffs in industrialized countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050535
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WTO and Policy Space for Agriculture and Food Security : Issues for China and India
Sharma, Sachin Kumar - 2020
The US has challenged the product-specific support to foodgrains by China in the WTO claiming that China has breached its commitments under WTO by providing more than US$100 billion as product specific support to wheat, rice and corn in 2015. The main issue is the price support backed...
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The Legal and Economic Implications of Economic Partnership Agreements in Kenya's Trade Arena : Assessing Liberalization of Agriculture and Food Security
Juma, Jill - 2010
benefit sharing (ABS) and protection of traditional knowledge in agriculture. The place of the UPOV is of utmost significance … in Kenya's Agriculture sector because Kenya is a signatory of the 1978 UPOV Act whereas there is in place the 1991 UPOV … Act (the basis of EPA negotiations on Agriculture) which has broader objectives and features, with respect to plant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141980
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Options to achieve net-zero emissions from agriculture and land use changes in Latin America and the Caribbean
Dumas, Patrice; Wirsenius, Stefan; Searchinger, Tim; … - 2022
the food system are key to reach these carbon neutrality goals, as agriculture and resulting land-use changes are …. We consider both direct agriculture emissions and the pressure that food production puts on land use changes, and track … preponderant role, emitting nearly 60% of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change. Reaching a net …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495097