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Climate-smart agriculture : perspectives and framings
Chandra, Alvin; McNamara, Karen E.; Dargusch, Paul - In: Climate policy 18 (2018) 4, pp. 526-541
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Climate, Insurance, and Innovation : The Case of U.S. Agriculture
Miao, Ruiqing - 2019
Innovation and insurance are two important options for the agricultural sector to adapt to climate change. However, how these two options interact with each other has not been documented in the literature. This paper intends to fill this gap by investigating the effects of crop insurance on...
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U.S. Agriculture's Role in a Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation World : An Economic Perspective
McCarl, Bruce A.; Schneider, Uwe A. - 2015
International agreements are likely to stimulate greenhouse gas mitigation efforts. Agriculture can participate either … where agriculture could sell emission offsets. Several agricultural opportunities are available at a cost of $10-25 per ton … dioxide. In the longer run, agriculture's role may diminish because many agricultural strategies offer only one-time gains and …
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The Environmental Rights Provisions of U.S. State Constitutions : A Comparative Analysis
Dernbach, John C. - 2023
Nearly every U.S. state has environmental provisions in its constitution. These provisions cover a wide range of issues concerning the manner in which the environment and natural resources are to be governed (e.g., public funding, eminent domain, public trust, access to water, legislative...
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When to go local, when to go edible : trade, technology and food security
Koch, William L.; Sadler, Thomas R. - 2009
We develop a variation of the Grossman-Helpman Protection for Saleʺ model, where organized groups, representing various sectors of the economy, influence government policy. In particular, this paper focuses on the rise of food prices and a greater level of influence of a food sector lobby,...
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US policy contributions to agricultural commodity price fluctuations, 2006 - 12
Rausser, Gordon C.; De Gorter, Harry - 2013
spikes have had the heaviest economic and social impact on developing nations, where agriculture accounts for a sizable … environmental, energy, and agricultural organized interest groups that continues to evolve. -- agriculture in international trade …
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Political economy synthesis : the food policy crisis
Watson, Derrill D. - 2013
The food price crisis revealed contradictions in creating food policy. Much of the common policy response can be explained by a benevolent, unitary government. To understand the variance between countries, however, requires understanding fractured government decision-making, path dependency, and...
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Do Walmart supercenters improve food security?
Courtemanche, Charles; Carden, Art; Zhou, Xilin; … - 2018
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from the 2001-2012 waves of the December Current Population Study Food Security Supplement. Using narrow...
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Agricultural production under climate change : the potential impacts of shifting regional water balances in the United States
Marshall, Elizabeth; Aillery, Marcel; Malcolm, Scott; … - In: American journal of agricultural economics 97 (2015) 2, pp. 568-588
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US agricultural producer perceptions of climate change
Rejesus, Roderick M.; Mutuc, Maria Erlinda M.; … - In: Journal of agricultural and applied economics 45 (2013) 4, pp. 701-718
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