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I examine the effects of climate change adaptation on agricultural productivity using a unique dataset from a non-randomized experiment involving 1,811 adapted and 3,280 non-adapted farm households across four African countries. By employing instrumental variables and simultaneous equations...
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over 10 percent growth rate, the Ethiopian economy has been one of the fastest growing economies in the world over the last … one and half decades. By any measure agriculture is the dominant economic sector in the country accounting for a sizeable …
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Global climate change presents long-term risks to agriculture. In general, global climate change is expected to … positively affect Russian agriculture. In high and middle latitudes, global warming would expand the growing season. Acreages of … production in the Russian Federation. It also considers adaptive measures for agriculture in response to climate change. …
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Agriculture is a major emitter of greenhouse gases. Its potential to contribute to limiting global warming to less than …
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National climate change adaptation programmes can strengthen agriculture's resilience to adverse climatic events by …
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The climate change will affect various crops during the entire growing period owing to extreme weather events. The adaptability of crops to climate variability would acquire significant dimension as frequent occurrence of extreme whether conditions may dictate as to how to cope up with the...
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This report develops quantitative and qualitative frameworks to test the possibility of systematically assessing a range of policies and their intended and unintended effects. The analysis spans the three policy objectives of enhanced productivity, climate change mitigation, and climate change...
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catalogue of targets and policies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU …) sector. It covers 20 countries which collectively account for nearly half of the world’s AFOLU emissions. Most of these …
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This paper examines the likely impact on agriculture of the climate change which has already taken place between 1960 …, and carbon dioxide response functions are used to calculate the impacts on agriculture. Temperature and precipitation … overall growth of agriculture has been small, contributing between 2.6% and 5.4% of overall growth. This effect has been …
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This study uses GLOBIOM ‒ the most detailed global economic model of agriculture, land use and greenhouse gas (GHG …) emissions ‒ to assess the effectiveness of different policies in cutting net emissions from the Agriculture, Forestry and Other …
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