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to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting … the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
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traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …
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The diffusion of renewable energy sources (RES) is a fundamental objective of the worldwide policy actions for sustainable development, at the UN level with the sustainable development goals (SDG) recommendations, to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all...
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Increasing agricultural technical productivity is an important means to meet growing future food demands and overcome some of the effects of climate change. In the US total production has increased for more than 100 years due to intensification through increased land productivity and...
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A large share of cross-country differences in productivity is explained by differences in agricultural productivity. Using a combination of sub-national agricultural statistics and geospatial datasets on crop-specific potential yields, we study the main drivers of this variation from a...
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This article estimates a worldwide aggregate supply response for key agricultural commodities — wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans — by employing a newly-developed multi-country, crop-calendar-specific, seasonally disaggregated model with price changes and price volatility applied accordingly....
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We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...
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Introduction / David Lobell, Marshall Burke -- Climate effects on food security : an overview / Marshall Burke, David Lobell -- Climate models and their projections of future changes / Claudia Tebaldi, Reto Knutti -- Crop response to climate : ecophysiological models / Jeffrey W. White, Gerrit...
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