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Understanding the latest wave and future shape of regional trade and cooperation agreements in Asia

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2006

Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high growth rates, Asia is still facing considerable socio-economic challenges. If Asia is to reemerge as a major power in the global economy and in order for the region to...

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Agro-biodiversity as natural insurance and the development of financial insurance markets

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2007

Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk averse farmers. We employ a conceptual ecological …-economic model to analyze the choice of agrobiodiversity by risk averse farmers who have access to financial insurance. We study the …-biodiversity, through ecosystem processes at higher hierarchical levels, generates a positive externality on other farmers. We show that for …

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Managing increasing environmental risks through agro-biodiversity and agri-environmental policies

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin F. - 2008

Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk-averse farmers by reducing the variance of crop yield, and to … analyze the choice of agro-biodiversity by risk-averse farmers who have access to financial insurance, and study the … increasing environmental risk leads private farmers to increase their level of on-farm agro-biodiversity, the level of agro …

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The agricultural and the democratic transitions: causality and the roundup model

Gundlach, Erich; Paldam, Martin - 2009

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We confirm that this conventional wisdom is strongly supported by the data. Long-run development (in income) also causes a large increase in democracy known as the...

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Optimal crop choice: farmer adaptation to climate change

Soto Arriagada, Leopoldo E. - 2005

I use a Mixed Logit model and the most detailed agricultural data publicly available to show how farmers employ land …

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Free trade agreement between People's Republic of China and India: Likely impact and its implications to Asian economic community

Bhattacharya, Swapan K.; Bhattacharyay, Biswa N. - 2006

Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world's two largest developing countries, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and intra-regional trade based on comparative advantage and available factor endowments. In view of the recent wave...

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Nowcasting from space: Impact of tropical cyclones on Fiji's agriculture

Noy, Ilan; Blanc, Elodie; Pundit, Madhavi; Uher, Tomas - 2023

The standard approach to 'nowcast' disaster impacts, which relies on risk models, does not typically account for the compounding impact of various hazard phenomena (e.g., wind and rainfall associated with tropical storms). The alternative, traditionally, has been a team of experts sent to the...

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Asia's transition to net zero: Opportunities and challenges in agriculture

Panda, Architesh; Yamano, Takashi - 2023

Asia is home to 60% of the world's population, 52% of global agricultural production, and 43% of agriculture-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While a large portion of the Asian population depends on agriculture for their livelihood and food security, the agriculture sector is one of the...

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Addressing Soil Quality Data Gaps with Imputation: Evidence from Ethiopia and Uganda

Dang, Hai-Anh; Carletto, Calogero; Gourlay, Sydney; … - 2024

Monitoring soil quality provides indispensable inputs for effective policy advice, but very few poorer countries can implement high-quality surveys on soil. We offer an alternative, low-cost imputation-based approach to generating various soil quality indicators. The estimation results validate...

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Capacidade adaptativa às mudanças climáticas de agricultores familiares no semiárido brasileiro

de Castro, César Nunes - 2024

generated by family farmers in the Brazilian semi-arid region are relatively low. The climate changes projected for the … Brazil, as well as the adaptive capacity of these farmers to the phenomenon and alternatives to mitigate possible impacts …

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