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Establishing the link between poverty and changes in climatic conditions in the Philippines

Arcenas, Agustin L. - 2018

This paper investigates whether changes in climatic conditions significantly contribute to incidence of poverty in the … Philippines. Due to the lack of sufficient regional estimates of poverty, this study utilized food cpi data to proxy for poverty … level. The relationship between poverty level and food cpi were tested and found to be moving in parallel direction, and …

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Determining the inflationary effects of El Niño and La Niña in the Philippines

Arcenas, Agustin L. - 2018

This paper investigates whether climate "shocks" (or short-term but sharp changes in climatic conditions), El Niño and La Niña, have significant impacts on inflation in the country. Using regional panel data and information from PAGASA, this study finds that both of these weather shocks have...

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Determining the inflationary effects of El Niño and La Niña in the Philippines

Arcenas, Agustin L. - 2018

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Economic impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation : evidence from the Colombian coffee market

Bastianin, Andrea; Lanza, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2016

We develop a structural econometric model to study the impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on Colombian coffee production, exports and price. Our empirical specification is consistent with an economic model of the coffee market that, in the short-run, is characterized by a...

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Economic Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation: Evidence from the Colombian Coffee Market

Bastianin, Andrea; Lanza, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2016

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El Niño and Indian droughts : a scoping exercise

Saini, Shweta; Gulati, Ashok - 2014

Weather experts around the world are foreseeing a strong El Niño in 2014. In India, these developments are feared to lead to droughts. In the last 14 years, out of the four El Niño years globally, three resulted in Indian droughts. Since the 1980s, all the six droughts faced by India were in...

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The Drought and Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa: Impacts and Proposed Policy Responses for Kenya

Demombynes, Gabriel; Kiringai, Jane - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 71, pp. 1-4

As the world begins to feel the effects of climate change, the frequency of droughts is increasing in the Horn of Africa. In Kenya, the drought and food crisis affect welfare through two main channels. The first channel is the increased mortality of livestock in drought-affected areas, which are...

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Sample Size Requirements for Assessing Statistical Moments of Simulated Crop Yield Distributions

Lehmann, Niklaus; Finger, Robert; Klein, Tommy; … - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 2, pp. 210-220

Mechanistic crop growth models are becoming increasingly important in agricultural research and are extensively used in climate change impact assessments. In such studies, statistics of crop yields are usually evaluated without the explicit consideration of sample size requirements. The purpose...

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Community Perspectives on the On-Farm Diversity of Six Major Cereals and Climate Change in Bhutan

Katwal, Tirtha Bdr.; Dorji, Singay; Dorji, Rinchen; … - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 1, pp. 2-16

Subsistence Bhutanese farmers spread across different agro-ecological zones maintain large species and varietal diversity of different crops in their farm. However, no studies have been undertaken yet to assess why farmers conserve and maintain large agro-biodiversity, the extent of...

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Global Change and Helminth Infections in Grazing Ruminants in Europe: Impacts, Trends and Sustainable Solutions

Morgan, Eric R.; Charlier, Johannes; Hendrickx, Guy; … - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 484-502

Infections with parasitic helminths (nematodes and trematodes) represent a significant economic and welfare burden to the global ruminant livestock industry. The increasing prevalence of anthelmintic resistance means that current control programmes are costly and unsustainable in the long term....

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