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Climate change and trade in agriculture
Huang, Hsin; von Lampe, Martin; van Tongeren, Frank - In: Food Policy 36 (2011) S1, pp. 9-9
a well-functioning international trade system can support the adaptation to climate change-related challenges, trade … can support the adaptation to climate change-related challenges. Hence welfare gains from reforms to trade policies may be …
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Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing countries: Policy options for innovation and technology diffusion
Lybbert, Travis J.; Sumner, Daniel A. - In: Food Policy 37 (2012) 1, pp. 114-123
will largely shape how and how well farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change. This adaptation and mitigation potential …
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Social Implications of Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
Verner, Dorte - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 61, pp. 1-5
Climate change is the defining development challenge of our time. More than a global environmental issue, climate change is also a threat to poverty reduction and economic growth and may unravel many of the development gains made in recent decades. Latin America and the Caribbean account for a...
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Agricultural management for climate change adaptation, greenhouse gas mitigation, and agricultural productivity: Insights from Kenya
Bryan, Elizabeth; Ringler, Claudia; Okoba, Barrack; … - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2011
smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and …, rural development, and climate change mitigation for generations to come. …
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Pro-poor low carbon development and the role of growth
Urban, Frauke - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 1, pp. 82-93
Climate change adaptation and mitigation need to cut across all poverty reduction efforts, including any post-2015 …
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Notes on Optimal Growth, Climate Change Calamities, Adaptation and Mitigation
Chisari, Omar - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
A strategy of inclusion of adaptation and mitigation expenses in a model of optimal growth under threat of climate … (even to extinction forever) and/or triggers a fundamental change of the economic structure. Mitigation expenses reduce the … long-run probability of a calamity or the speed of convergence to it; adaptation expenses help to improve the standard of …
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Climate Change - A Research Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean
Chisari, Omar; Galiani, Sebastian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
The objective of this research agenda is to outline the issues that need to be investigated in order to produce an informed assessment of what strategies and policies Latin America and its international organizations should pursue with respect to climate change. This report makes the three...
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The Poverty Impacts of Climate Change
Skoufias, Emmanuel; Rabassa, Mariano; Olivieri, Sergio; … - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 51, pp. 1-5
Over the last century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty. However, there is an increasing concern that climate change could slow or possibly even reverse poverty reduction progress. Given the complexities involved in analyzing climate change...
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It Is Time to Factor Natural Disasters into Macroeconomic Scenarios
Thomas, Vinod - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 52, pp. 1-4
change mitigation, disaster preparedness, early response, and postdisaster reconstruction. …
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Financing greener and climate-resilient infrastructure in developing countries - challenges and opportunities
Fay, Marianne; Iimi, Atsushi; Perrissin-Fabert, Baptiste - Economics Department, European Investment Bank (EIB) - 2010
Developing countries are faced with a substantial and persistent infrastructure deficit. Climate change complicates this challenge, affcting the way we design and manage infrastructure (defined here as transport, power, water and sanitation) and increasing costs. But all s not negative: Climate...
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