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Rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa have experienced limited progress towards the sustainable development goal of universal access to clean cooking. Energy-efficient biomass cookstoves (EEBCs) are considered a potential bridge technology, but EEBC models vary widely, and there is a lack of...
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Household air pollution from biomass cooking is the most significant environmental health risk in the Global South. Interventions to address this risk mostly promote less-polluting stoves and clean fuels, but their diffusion proves difficult. This paper assesses the potentially complementary...
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Household air pollution from biomass cooking is the most significant environmental health risk in the Global South. Interventions to address this risk mostly promote less-polluting stoves and clean fuels, but their diffusion has proven difficult. This paper assesses the potentially complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014501045
Rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa have experienced limited progress towards the sustainable development goal of universal access to clean cooking. Energy-efficient biomass cookstoves (EEBCs) are considered a potential bridge technology, but EEBC models vary widely, and there is a lack of...
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Agribusiness Venture Arrangements (AVAs) and the Sugarcane Block Farming (SBF). The objective of this study is to assess the … focusing on three export crops, namely, banana, pineapple, and sugarcane which were selected based on their significant …
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We analyze the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-usechange, food supply and prices, and the overall economy in various countries or regions using amulti-country, multi-sector global computable general equilibrium model augmented with an explicitland-use module and...
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emphasis on corn-based ethanol, on the U.S. economy. The modelspecification incorporates world and domestic markets, assumes … ethanol. The model is calibrated to represent a recent benchmark data set for 2009 andis used to simulate the positive and … normative effects of alternative policies. We find that asecond best policy of a fuel tax and ethanol subsidy approximates …
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greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions,interest has reemerged in biofuels, particularly ethanol, in the past twenty-five years. U.S.ethanol …
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