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the food system are key to reach these carbon neutrality goals, as agriculture and resulting land-use changes are …. We consider both direct agriculture emissions and the pressure that food production puts on land use changes, and track … preponderant role, emitting nearly 60% of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change. Reaching a net …
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Governments in many countries are pursuing higher environmental goals for agriculture. However, in an interconnected … world, the unilateral adoption of environmental policies for agriculture can reduce the producers’ competitiveness and … environmental policy adopted. Two policy routes are identified to improve agriculture’s environmental performance while maintaining …
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reduction or abolition of cotton subsidies in rich countries. • To increase price responsiveness and ensure that the results of …• Available evidence strongly suggests that cotton producers in West Africa are relatively unresponsive to changes in … cotton marketing structures. • While most West African countries have already taken important steps in that direction, much …
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This study has critically examined the issue of Cotton subsidies in USA as well made a comparative analysis of cotton …-distorting subsidies of USA but was on account of upward trend in cotton production in India and China in defiance of market signals. This … sector between USA and India in the background of USA claim that African Cotton producers' plight was not due to the trade …
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Agriculture contributes substantially to output and employment in South Asian countries. Therefore, any change, like … trade liberalization, that impacts on the agriculture sector has widespread ramifications in terms of employment, nutrition …, livelihood and food security. Implementation of various provisions of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture causes serious concern …
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Procampo was launched in 1994 to help the transition from low productivity activities to high productivity activities, among other policy objectives. We investigate the effects of Procampo on migration flows from Mexico to third countries (mainly the US), and the employment dynamics in the...
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impact on agriculture growth during that period, whereas public spending on fertilizer subsidies had the opposite effect. As …This note analyzes the trends and evolution of public spending in the agriculture sector in Indonesia, as well as its … impact on the growth of agriculture during the period 1976–2006. Public spending on agriculture and irrigation had a positive …
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subsidies at the state and municipality level, considering the geographic distribution of growth, productivity and employment … agricultural subsidies and rural development programs on rural income inequality in Mexico. …
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This chapter provides an overview of the first two decades of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) – an effort to support a standardized database and computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling platform for international economic analysis. It characterizes GTAP in four different...
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