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consumption of commodities, grouped in three main sectors: energy, industrial processes and agriculture. Input–output (IO … domestically or traded bilaterally. The inventories included estimates of energy-related and non-energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2 …
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In the last few years interest in short food supply chains has been steadily increasing, finding ever more room in both institutional and scientific debate. This paper aims at identifying the implications of short food chains for environmental, social and economic issues, as they emerge from the...
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Biofuel policies are a subset of policies designed to achieve energy security, an improved environment, enhanced … agricultural incomes, technological change, and overall economic benefits, with increased domestic energy production creating green … perverse and contradictory effects. Most importantly, we show how biofuel policies established the crop-energy price link and …
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explicit representation of agricultural production and energy use is used to simulate a series of new scenarios in which 1997 … liberalization agricultural output declines, energy use increases, and carbon emissions rise. Global welfare rises revealing an …
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biomass in energy, which depends on the availability of land. Thus an opportunity has been created on the EU market for … agriculture by stimulating the development of new sources of income and by ensuring long-term competitiveness. …
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The global future lies before us as a highly uncertain and contested landscape with numerous perils along the way. This study explores possible pathways to sustainability by considering in quantitative detail four contrasting scenarios for the twenty-first century. The analysis reveals vividly...
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In this paper we investigate price and volatility risk originating in link- ages between energy and agricultural …
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explicitly measured inputs to capital, labour and intermediate inputs (energy, materials and services). These inputs are measured … influences on output are captured by the MFP ‘residual.’ However in some industries – mining, agriculture, and utilities – output … can also depend significantly on unmeasured inputs of natural resources. Rainfall in agriculture is an obvious example …
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This paper looks critically at how food and agriculture-, energy security-, and climate change-oriented international … rural production. We find that the prevalent motive is an aspiration to combine the agriculture and energy markets into one … global agriculture and – contrary to the food vs. fuel perspective – calls for re-conceptualizing the biofuel debate as the …
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