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Current issues in natural resource and environmental economics
Halkos, George E. (ed.) - 2023
The interrelationship between economic growth, efficient use of natural resources, and sustainability has been of great interest to economists, researchers and policy makers. Knowledge of actual causality direction between sustainability, efficiency and growth has important implications for...
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Climate changes and new productive dynamics in the global wine sector
Lamonaca, Emilia; Santeramo, Fabio Gaetano; Seccia, Antonio - In: Bio-based and applied economics 10 (2021) 2, pp. 123-135
Climate change has the potential to impact the agricultural sector and the wine sector in particular. The impacts of climate change are likely to differ across producing regions of wine. Future climate scenarios may push some regions into climatic regimes favourable to grape growing and wine...
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How much do infrastructural investments mitigate impacts of seasonal shocks on food security?
Kankwamba, Henry; Kornher, Lukas - 2019
Ending extreme hunger requires the interaction of both household and community level infrastructural investments. When communities and households are capital infrastructure constrained, the effects of extreme events such as droughts can fetter consumption growth and food security. This paper,...
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Moving Toward Food Democracy : Better Food, New Farmers, and the Myth of Feeding the World
Hamilton, Neil D. - 2015
Hamilton’s essay begins with a reflection on food and society. He writes of the effect of modernization and industry on the relationship America has with food. What once was a centerpiece of our economic independence, family life, and health is now merely an afterthought. Quality and trust in...
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Get Green or Get Out : Decoupling Environmental from Economic Objectives in Agricultural Regulation
Chen, James Ming - 2014
American agricultural law's environmental record is a legacy of legislative failure. Most of the blame can and should be attributed to the failure of the law to separate ecological objectives from competing and ultimately contradictory economic objectives. Two strains of agroecological fallacies...
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Ethiopia - land, energy, climate change, and agricultural development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Assefa Admassie; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021
Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than 110 million. With … as the impact of climate change and the policy responses of the Government of Ethiopia. The review clearly shows that … 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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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry
Bonny, Sylvie - 2017
In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987397
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector : How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2016
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock that affects wages in voluntary and involuntary labor relations differently....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989831
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Taking Stock of the Genetically Modified Seed Sector Worldwide : Market, Stakeholders, and Prices
Bonny, Sylvie - 2015
The seed sector has become a subject of attention, debate, and even controversy with the development of genetically modified (GM) crops. However, this sector is generally rather poorly known. A new paper aims to take stock of the economy of GM seeds in order to better understand the structure of...
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