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The precautionary principle (PP) has sometimes been invoked to justify a ban on GM crops. This justification, however, takes credit for reducing potential public health and environmental risks that might result from a ban but ignores any blame for risks that the ban might generate or prolong....
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This research proposal aims to explore how food security is associated with the health and environmental risks. It is a study based on the state of Punjab in India. The state of Punjab has nearly 40% share of country's food grain production. This food bowl state pioneered the green revolution in...
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) optimal renewable resource use, (ii) the tragedy of the commons, (iii) economic growth and pollution. I then compare results …. In a model of economic growth and pollution, hyperbolic discounting establishes the Golden Rule of capital accumulation …
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environmental problems: (i) optimal renewable resource use, (ii) the tragedy of the commons, (iii) economic growth and pollution. I … access resources. In a model of economic growth and pollution, hyperbolic discounting establishes the Golden Rule of capital …
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corresponding Bertrand magnitude if the weight of the stock of pollution is large enough. …
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This paper investigates whether changes in climatic conditions significantly contribute to incidence of poverty in the Philippines. Due to the lack of sufficient regional estimates of poverty, this study utilized food cpi data to proxy for poverty level. The relationship between poverty level...
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We use primary data to examine the potential role of wild foods in alleviating food insecurity among rural farmers in Bhutan during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that food-insecure households are more likely to collect wild foods, suggesting that food-insecure households are consuming wild...
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This article, focusing on produce and grain, discusses the environmental and climate change impacts of food production, processing, packaging, and distribution, which ultimately contributes to both economic and social costs. The article addresses environmental energy costs in the food supply
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