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Climate mitigation co-benefits from sustainable nutrient management in agriculture : Incentives and opportunities
Andersen, Mikael Skou - 2021
also explores the opportunities for sustainable nutrient management in agriculture with climate mitigation benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801171
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Economics of land degradation initiative : methods and approach for global and national assessments
Nkonya, Ephraim; Braun, Joachim von; Mirzabaev, Alisher; … - 2013
Healthy land ecosystems are essential to sustainable development, including food security and improved livelihoods. Yet, their key services have usually been taken for granted and their true value underrated, leading to land degradation becoming a critical global problem. This pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010198682
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Does Ecological Footprint Impede Economic Growth? An Empirical Analysis Based on the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis
Uddin, Gazi; Alam, Khorshed; Gow, Jeff - 2016
This paper examines the relationship between income and environmental quality using environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis. The hypothesised link is tested using time‐series analysis of 22 countries over the period 1961–2011. The degree of environmental impacts of economic activity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125425
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Relationship between climate change and agriculture at the EU level
Ilić, Ivana; Jovanovi´c, Sonja; … - In: Ekonomske teme 60 (2022) 3, pp. 323-342
) according to the achieved level of environmental performance in agriculture and climate change in 2020. The data used for this … statistical analysis were employed. The study focuses on Climate change and Agriculture, two factors of the Ecosystem Vitality … between the two environmental policy areas, agriculture and climate change. Also, the cluster analysis showed that most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281867
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Chapter 60 Past Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture
Mendelsohn, Robert - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 3009-3031). 2007
This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 …, and carbon dioxide response functions are used to calculate the impacts on agriculture. Temperature and precipitation … overall growth of agriculture has been small, contributing between 2.6% and 5.4% of overall growth. This effect has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024064
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Global population growth, technology and Malthusian constraints : a quantitative growth theoretic perspective
Lanz, Bruno; Dietz, Simon; Swanson, Timothy M. - 2016
We structurally estimate a two-sector Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous population and finite land reserves to study the long-run evolution of global population, technological progress and the demand for food. The estimated model closely replicates trajectories for world population,...
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Food and Energy (In)Security : Evidence from Agricultural Investments in Selected Emerging Economies
Zolin, Bruna - 2013
Land grabbing appears to be driven by a variety of factors that seem destined to expand in the long term. The aim of this paper is to highlight the behavior and the role of China (a net food importer country) and India (which is facing a problem of energy insecurity) in the current escalation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073120
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A Modelling Framework for Addressing the Synergies Between Global Conventions Through Land Use Changes : Carbon Sequestration, Biodiversity Conservation, Prevention of Land Degrada...
Ponce-Hernandez, Raul - 2015
This paper proposed a methodological framework for the assessment of carbon stocks and the development and identification of land use, land use change and land management scenarios, whereby enhancing carbon sequestration synergistically increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012707873
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A low GHG development pathway design framework for agriculture, forestry and land use
Svensson, Johannes; Waisman, Henri; Vogt-Schilb, Adrien; … - In: Energy strategy reviews 37 (2021), pp. 1-14
Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) represent 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the … across four types of levers (increasing sequestration; improving the emissions efficiency of agriculture; incentivising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173552
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Global Inequality in Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health
Bell, Winnie - 2020
opportunities for agriculture and food policies, as well as aid in prioritizing research objectives and donor funding for the coming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829723