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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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catalogue of targets and policies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU …) sector. It covers 20 countries which collectively account for nearly half of the world’s AFOLU emissions. Most of these …
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economic performance in agriculture. Examining these twin impacts is essential for understanding the scope for “win … successfully deliver on their objectives to improve the environmental performance of agriculture, and ii) whether agri … innovation, economic performance and structural change in agriculture. It brings together literature from across a range of …
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of the agriculture sector, including the potentially contradictory signals policies may send. It considers impacts for … impacts of land use choice. Beyond this, policies can also affect agriculture’s environmental performance by stimulating (or …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are driving forces in agro-food global value chains (GVCs), allowing … the agriculture and food sectors, using a novel database of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) covering the period 1997 … and investment policies can have a strong positive influence on agro-food FDI. The study also highlights the importance of …
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water use efficiency and resilience, and those supporting responsible investment in agriculture and water. …This report takes stock of agriculture and water policy changes from 2009 to 2019 and assesses the alignment of these … changes with relevant sections of the OECD Council Recommendation on Water and the 2017 G20 Agriculture Ministerial Action …
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This paper develops theoretical and quantitative analysis to identify the potential synergies and trade-offs inherent in various policy instruments that address agricultural productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and water quality objectives. The theoretical model used describes...
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Agriculture is a major emitter of greenhouse gases. Its potential to contribute to limiting global warming to less than …
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This study uses GLOBIOM ‒ the most detailed global economic model of agriculture, land use and greenhouse gas (GHG …) emissions ‒ to assess the effectiveness of different policies in cutting net emissions from the Agriculture, Forestry and Other …
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