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In this chapter we assess the vulnerability of Botswana’s agriculture to climate change, with special emphasis on impacts on the poor. The agriculture sector is inherently vulnerable to climate change, and Botswana’s semiarid climate already severely limits agricultural production....
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Modeling the impacts of climate change presents a complex challenge arising from the wide-ranging processes underlying the working of markets, ecosystems, and human behavior. The analytical framework used in this monograph integrates modeling components that range from the macro to the micro to...
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Southern African Agriculture and Climate Change: A Comprehensive Analysis examines the food security threats facing eight of the countries that make up southern Africa — Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, and Zimbabwe — and explores how climate...
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This study analyzed 42 years’ time series data from 1970-2011 for the acreage response of sugarcane to price and non … farmers for sugarcane in the study area. The empirical results show that short run and long run elastisities are inelastic for … price, yield and lag area are enhanced, the acreage allocation of sugarcane might improve in-elastically. The relatively low …
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A study was conducted during 2008 to make economic analysis of sugarcane crop in district Charsadda. The study was …, marketing, credit and financing and sources of income were moreclosely related with sugarcane production. The major economic … practices were;preparation of land, water management, weed control, insecticides and making of black sugar (Gur). Main sugarcane …
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This study was undertaken to identify the factors affecting sugarcane production in Pakistan. Data were collected from … 387 sugarcane growers from Sindh, Punjab and NWFP province. Data were collected during the period 2007-08. The study … reveals that the costs of inputs of sugarcane i.e. urea, DAP, FYM, land preparation, seed and its application, weeding and …
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decline in sugarcane plantations, which resulted in the spread of an invasive woody shrub species and the increase in woody …
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renewable and green energy sources. Biomass is one of these, and it represents, in the form of sugarcane, a strategic source in … Colombia, especially in the Valle del Cauca. In this region, the sugarcane industry is able to convert the energy content of … the cane into different energy products, such as ethanol, electricity, and high-pressure steam, which are cogenerated via …
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operations so as to improve them, to manage crops better. The article describes two cases, coffee and sugarcane, in which …
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competitive with R$ 600/ha for sugarcane leasing and R$ 700/ha for soybean production. Despite the smaller returns on land, large … landowners can have a good household income with sugarcane or soybean, but for smallholders the intensification of dairy is the …
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