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Climate change and agriculture : farmer adaptation to extreme heat

Aragón, Fernando M.; Oteiza, Francisco; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2018

This paper examines how farmers adapt, in the short-run, to extreme heat. Using a production function approach and micro-data from Peruvian households, we find that high temperatures induce farmers to increase the use of inputs, such as land and domestic labor. This reaction partially attenuates...

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Economics of Land Degradation Initiative : Methods and Approach for Global and National Assessments

Nkonya, Ephraim - 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...

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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

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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...

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Empirically estimated impacts of climate change on global crop production via increasing precipitation-evapotranspiration extremes

Raitzer, David A.; Drouard, Joeffrey - 2024

Although agriculture is often considered vulnerable to climate change, recent gridded crop growth modelling …

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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 …

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Integrated assessment of biodiversity and agriculture

Gars, Johan; Spiro, Daniel; Engström, Gustav; Lade, … - 2025

economy. To capture the main causes of biodiversity loss and the economic harm from it, we focus on agriculture and its …

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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 …

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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 …

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...

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